Re: A82: OS-82 bug/drawback
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Re: A82: OS-82 bug/drawback
At 10:57 PM 8/21/97 +0000, you wrote:
>
>I of course am aware of this, your version is just outdated. Get OS-82
>version 1.1 from ticalc.org. That fixed that little mishap, and as far as
>I know, there are no other "bugs" in OS-82, which has been out for about a
>month or so. The "slowing down" of calculations is simply because of the
>memory being used by programs. If you have a lot of normal basic programs
>on your calc and do a calculation, it's a LOT slower than if you did the
>same calculation with reset memory.
I have to disagree. The slowing down of the calc is probably caused by the
mis-reported size of one of OS-82's variables in memory. BTW, OS-82 has
only been around 17 days...not "a month or so."
>At 10:31 PM 8/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>At 08:59 PM 8/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>>I have been using OS-82 and have found an interesting bug/drawback to using
>>>it. Whenver you use a table type function with a menu bar (list editor,
>>>matrice editor, y/x table), the menu does not show up on the screen. If
you
>>>press graph to look at the graph screen, the menu is on there where it
>should
>>>have been before. Can anyone else explain/verify this? Does this happen
>>>with OSHELL-82 or ASH?
>>
>>This problem is due to the fact that (IY+$14) bit 7 is SET. The only way
>>to correct it is by changing the exit code on the shell so that it is
>>reset. Talk to Jason Todd about this.
>>
>>(IY+14)
>>Bit 7 set - Write text to graph mem
>>Bit 7 res - Write text directly to LCD
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