Re: ZShell on 86

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Subject: Re: ZShell on 86
From: Niklas Brunlid <e96nbr@EFD.LTH.SE>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:40:54 GMT
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
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On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:42:19 -0400, "Ryan Goldenberg"
<goldenbe@gate.net> wrote:

> I heard that you didn't need ZShell on the TI-86 to run the *.85s files the
>TI-85 was using in ZShell.   I heard you could use the TI-86 built in
>assembly functions to run these games.  (*.85s or *.86s)  Is this true, and
>if so, is the "ASM" function involved?

Well, no. The 86 won't be able to run any of the assembly stuff from
the 85 *ever*. Unless someone writes an emulator, which would be slow,
memory-consuming and utterly useless, since all you have to to is
convert the source - as long as your game isn't custom-made for the
85. The 86 is also slower than the 85, which wouldn't help...

>I have a program called zPong.86s that I transferred to my calculator and
>tried running using "Asm(zPong)" but it said "ERROR 10 DATA TYPE" Am I using
>the wrong parameters and how do I run it successfully?

I don't own a 86, but doesn't Asm( take an ASCII-file with hexcodes
and make it into a program that can be run directily?

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