Re: HELP with ti-85 programming

To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: HELP with ti-85 programming
From: Eggplant Farms <TGaArdvark@AOL.COM>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 14:22:55 -0400
Reply-To: TGaArdvark@AOL.COM

>> I have an old Z80 assembler for my PC, and I want to create assembly
>> programs that are independent of any OSs, like ZShell.  How can I go
>> about assembling a program on my PC and transferring it over to the
>> calc, and how do I get it onto the CUSTOM menu?  Thanks!
>
> It's not a smart idea to make an indepent program... if anyone would
> like to try out your program, he/she would have to send it over to
> the calc as a backup (the only way to get anything in the CUSTOM
> menu) which would erase everything else - not something someone
> would do just to play a game, especially since no other games would
> work.

Actually, a backup is not necessary. Another program could be written
to move the program to the front of the user mem (or behind the last
assembly program already moved there) and change a user-selected
slot in the custom menu to point there. The problem: who's goona
write it?

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