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At 01:51 PM 12/8/96 -0500, you wrote:
>daniel Plaisted wrote:
>>
>> Could someone tell me how to change the interrupt vector for the on key. I
>> know that its auto-int 6, but i tried running a program to change it and it
>> gave me some sort of protected memory error.
>>
>> In case your wondering why I want to do this i'm just learning asm. I want
>> to write a program that will crash the calc :) However, I want to be
>> original. You run the program, the calculator works fine, etc. until you
>> press the on key :) Since the program has overwritten the interrupt vector
>> for the on key, the calc crashes. If you want an excuse to get mad at
>> someone, run the program, exit fargo, and give it to someone who wants to
>> play a game. When the hit shift on the calc should crash :)
>>
>> -dsplaisted@geocities.com
>
>ps, it would be stupid to crash your own calc! A smarter idea would be
>to make them *think* they crashed your calc, get mad at em, and then
>continue playing ftris!
>
>also, to do what you want, simply make a program to do the crashing, and
>name it shell.92p
>
>you chould create that file and rename the fargo file shell.92p and
>swith them when you want to simulate a crash! cause the file shell.92p
>is simply "called" by fargo when you hit shift on
>
>--
>Christopher Poole
>poole.christopher@paradox.net
>http://www.paradox.net/homepages/poole
>http://mycorner.home.ml.org
>http://poole.home.ml.org
>
I wasn't wanting to do the program for any practical use, really, I just was
trying to do it to learn fargo and thought it might be fun to make someone
think it was their fault that your calc crashed. I'm still want to know the
answer to my previous question, too :)
-dsplaisted@geocities.com