A89: Re: Re: Why is 89 so unstable?


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A89: Re: Re: Why is 89 so unstable?




Will nobody listen?  If you use that program, you have a less likely chance
of your calc crashing!  Most of the games work perfectly fine on v1.05 of
the 89 ROM.  You just have to do a little testing first.

-Miles Raymond      EML: m_rayman@bigfoot.com
ICQ: 13217756       IRC: Killer2        AIM: KilIer2 (kilier2)
http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_rayman/

----- Original Message -----
From: Ryan Kabir <rkabir@attcanada.net>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 11:54 PM
Subject: A89: Re: Why is 89 so unstable?


> I had the same problems, too... after a week of crashing my calc... I
> downgraded to ROM 1.00 from
> http://alh.dhs.org/ti89
> and now I can happily play games in Math class...
>
> Also, I dont' know about this... but I was browsing the files at
> ticalc.org... somewhere, under I think DOS... there was a util to convert
> ASM progs so that they work under ROM v1.05  I haven't tried it, since
I've
> got v1.00 now... but it might be worth a shot if you don't want to
> downgrade... and don't mind the possibility of crashing yet once more....
>
> Ryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrey Kislyuk <ak@creativegeometry.com>
> To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
> Date: Monday, October 11, 1999 10:40 PM
> Subject: A89: Why is 89 so unstable?
>
> >Why the **** is ti89 so freaking unstable?
> >I've tried like 3 different kernels (including doors, where I had to
reset
> >my calc twice after pressing "home" - thanks, Doors team), a version of
> >Doors that I had just froze it right there on ROM 1.05 when I installed
it;
> >now I've been running lexos for some time and can't see any problems with
> >the kernel itself. However, it crashes like crazy! Every two days
something
> >comes up that crashes it and I have to load everything up again! It's not
> >just poorly written asm's, the last time it crashed when I accidentially
> >made it graph a non-existent variable in 3D! Huh? What is a calculator
> >supposed to do when the variable doesn't exist? Answer: display "division
> by
> >zero" over top of screen and crash. I had no problems whatsoever with
> memory
> >management OR asm's on 86. None.
> >Sorry if I sound stupid or unreasonable; I'm new to 89. Can anyone
explain
> >to me how to keep it stable?



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