Re: A86: Loading Strings and Graphics


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Re: A86: Loading Strings and Graphics




In a message dated 5/22/00 7:19:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
victor-manuel@ctv.es writes:

> Itīs an interesting idea. If you can connect the screen of the GameBoy
>  to Ti86..... They have the same proccesor. They are the same thing, but
>  whith other number of keys.  :-).

Actually they don't.  Although the Gameboy processor is similar to a z80, it 
has many differences, most notably the absence of the shadow registers and 
interrupt codes.  There is also no more ldir or cpir.  Instead you can do 
things such as this:

 ldi a,(hl)     ;ld a,(hl) \ inc hl
 swap a         ;swap nibbles in a
 ldi (de),a     ;ld (de),a \ inc de
 ld ($ff00+$e0),a   ;2 byte instruction!

NOT exactly the same processor...


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