A82: TI-82 Silent Link server

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Subject: A82: TI-82 Silent Link server
From: David Eriksson/2GooD Productions <david@2goodsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 16:25:25 +0100
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Hi,

I am developing a link software (all cables, all 8x models) and if someone developed a silent link server for the 82 I would support it and you would save everyone the trouble pushing buttons for transfers.

In a silent link server on the 82, it's easy to get free memory, contents and variables.
As I see it, the trouble is incorporating a received variable onto the calculator.
It's not easy but probably easiest to use TI's own routines for send/receive, which would have to be found in ROM for all versions. (Maybe Dines has already?)

I'm thinking of a design like this:
  * Wait for link activity
  * Receive silent link command
    - Request contents and free memory
    - Send variable(s)
    - Receive variable(s)
  * Loop

Maybe it could be written interrupt-driven like I suppose it is on 83/86?


                     -/- David Eriksson -/-

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