RE: A92: Fargo on the 89?

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Subject: RE: A92: Fargo on the 89?
From: Niklas Brunlid <e96nbr@efd.lth.se>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 12:32:49 +0200
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At 23:53 1998-06-26 -0400, you wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
>>[mailto:owner-assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of
>>TurboSoft@aol.com
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>>To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
>>Subject: Re: A92: Fargo on the 89?
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>>In a message dated 6/26/98 12:45:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>brabeler@isd.ingham.k12.mi.us writes:
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>>> That's true, but the 83 didn't need a shell either and now we have
>>>  AShell83 and SOS.  David said he was probably going to make a special
>>>  version of Fargo for the 89.
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>>That would be cool.
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>>l have a question.  it's either smart or really dumb, l don't know because l
>>don't have a 92.  Anyway can calculators that have to have a hacked assembly
>>shell (like Fargo and then ZShell for the 85) have interrupts that work
during
>>normal use of the calculator?  like the interrupts and (l guess TSRs) on the
>>86.
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>no, fargo doesn't allow anyone to change the interrups for normal
operation. This is b/c relocation causes the interrupt called, to
>crash the calculator.
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It can be done, but

 1) The program must be on a steady location in memory, i.e. the bottom of
the stack or something.
 2) It mustn't call any library functions (except those in the ROM).


Niklas Brunlid - http://www.efd.lth.se/~e96nbr
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