Re: Assembly Possible on the TI-81 (???)
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Re: Assembly Possible on the TI-81 (???)
The TI-81 has no link port. The TI-80 only features a link port on the
ViewScreen models.
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Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, anonymous wrote:
> Alright. I'm going to give my standard disclaimer: I'm just a user, not a
> programmer. And I'm no hardware/software guru either. But, I had an idea
> for getting assembly support to the TI-81.
>
> Someone a while back posted on ticalc.org that the TI-81 was in fact wired
> for a link port. So, install a 2.5mm jack there.
>
> OK yeah that sounds stupid. "No link port software." That's the thing.
>
> In the news lately have been reports of a buffer/stack overrun problem with
> popular email clients. Well, why couldn't the stack be overrun on a TI-81?
> Maybe if the memory were filled up and a certain instruction executed?
>
> Anyhow, overflow the stack with an instruction to begin dumping all input on
> the linkport to the RAM. I don't know you'd do anything to the VAT with
> this. But again, this is just an idea.
>
> Use that dumped stuff to call the ROM and build from the ground up a shell
> that accepts file transfers. It may never do assembly games, but perhaps
> TI-81's will finally have links...
>
> --Matt Cooper / mnemonicdevice@hotmail.com
>
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