Re: TURBOING THE TI-86?!?!?
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Re: TURBOING THE TI-86?!?!?
It WILL affect any asm program on the ti86 if you pull C9, just like asm
progs on the ti85.
For those interested, techie stuff:
On IBM PCs, whenever you write an effect depending on some timed unit, you
interface with the clock chip, (for microsecond precision) or just plain
the dos clock (1 second precision) to make sure it doesn't fly out of the
screen, so to say, on a really fast computer.
Not so on a TI-xx calculator. All TI-85 programs can only be run on a
TI-85. All TI-85s have the exact same speed. So, you just plug in some
empty loops, or something along those lines.
Doing that, on, say, ibm-pcs, you get a different delay on different
computers and processor types (ie: on a pentium it's an eye-blink, on a
4.77 Mhz XT it takes a minute...)
Due to the rather low amount of turbo calculators out there, and due to the
limited clock capabilities of the ti calculator series (sub92.. only the 92
has a crystal. that is very precise.), along with just one way to have any
kind of 'real' time ref (the time irupt, triggers 200 times a sec.) Using
the T_Irupt all the time not only makes long code, it also makes slower
code due to all the references back and forth, and thus many games are all
of a sudden not possible.
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-R.Zwitserloot@BTInternet.com
Mohsan H. <QmH@AOL.COM> wrote in article
<970721123511_-557768883@emout15.mail.aol.com>...
> How about trying to turbo the 86? It probably has the "C9" capacitor
> because it's very similiar to the 85. Has anyone tried take this
capacitor
> out?
>
> Also, if this is possible: would it affect any of the Assembly Language
> stuff? Because on my turboed 85, sometimes my calculator locked up when
I
> ran Z-Shell.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mohsan...
>
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