[SD] Re: Venus on all Z80 Ti's
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[SD] Re: Venus on all Z80 Ti's
On Tuesday, October 02, 2001, Tijl wrote:
> Venus moves all program data, including the size bytes, to the start of usermem. It updates all bytes in the VAT too. Actually Venus changes the order in which variables are stored in usermem,
> moving the executed program to the start. A consequence of this is that when a system error occures, no dirty ram is left behind. Installing an error handler to clean up ram is not necessary,
> because there is nothing to clean up.
> It also allows for easy program write back, easy accessing TIOS variables, easy memory management,...
Doesn't Rigel on the 85 do this also?
I wrote up a some code that does it on the 86 for a game I'm working
on, though it doesn't agree with the TIOS 100%... I missed a pointer
or two somewhere or something. Has anyone else tried?
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