A89: Re: Re: Assembly-89 Digest V1 #775
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A89: Re: Re: Assembly-89 Digest V1 #775
Here, here! Finally a guy with sense! =)
-Miles Raymond EML: m_rayman@bigfoot.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: Alan C Johnson <benjamin99@juno.com>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 8:48 PM
Subject: A89: Re: Assembly-89 Digest V1 #775
> What I think your problem is that you are trying to send versions of ASM
> programs that are not patched for ROM 1.05. What TI did was change where
> the keypresses were stored in the RAM on version 1.05. So the old
> versions of ASM progs you're sending him expect the getkey to be in the
> old possition, so they never get the actual keypress. I don't think
> there is anything you can really do about it unless you want to run the
> patch utility on each of the programs on your computer just so they'll
> work on his calc. I suggest you downgrade his ROM the way it is said
> earlier.
>
> BTW: I just use the new ROM and patch my games. Despite all of the
> complaints I have heard about the it, I haven't really had any more
> crashes than with the old ROM. Whenever I send games to the other persons
> calc, I send my ROM over to them.
>
> -Alan
>
> Original Message:
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 21:44:12 -0400
> From: "Scott Noveck" <noveck@pluto.njcc.com>
> Subject: A89: Hardware Version 2.00 Problems
>
> OK, I was wrong -- a friend of mine in school bought an 89 yesterday
> loaded
> w/ hardware version 2.00 and ROM 1.05 natively. The DoorsOS version 1.00
> kernel froze when I attempted to install it; I'm not sure if one of the
> newer versions of the kernel from Final Beta 2 will help. I haven't
> tried
> to downgrade him to ROM v1.00 yet directly from my own calc. There
> definately IS something odd about those calcs; Olle, does your friend
> (was
> it Johan?) have a new one to "dissect" and analyze for differences?
>
> Something fishy is going on. . . the whole point of Flash ROM on the 89s
> is
> so that all calcs - old and new - can be on the same version and there is
> no
> NEED to release newer versions of the actual calculator - just tell
> people
> to download the upgraded version of the ROM. If they needed to release
> new
> hardware then there seems to be some kind of a serious problem with the
> old
> ones. . .
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