Re: A82: Program Idea


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Re: A82: Program Idea




What, if you show your calc to your teachers with no programs in the
program menu they'll still reset it? Noprogs works good enough for me.


On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 23:55:07 PST "Kevin Kibbe" <a_s_d_f@hotmail.com>
writes:
>
>    Awhile back, I was browsing throught the TI-85 assembly archive 
>and 
>came across a program that supposedly allowsed you to reset your 
>calculator and then unreset it.  If I recall correctly the only 
>requirement (other than an assembly shell) was that you must have 
>approximately half of your memory free.  I was wondering if someone 
>might be willing to at least consider porting it.
>
>    I realize that some of the people on the list might consider this 
>a 
>little excessive, but it does have some big advantages.  One of the 
>major differences between it and programs like MemClear is that it 
>allow 
>you to actually "reset" your calc.  I was thinking that the program 
>might be even more believable if it used CRash's inter handlers, so 
>that 
>it could be used while running the calculator in "normal" mode, 
>instead 
>of running it from the assembly shell.
>
>    I believe that this program would be beneficial to the TI-82 
>community because most, if not all of us, use our calcs on exams in 
>school.  And, a large portion of our teachers and professors like to 
>reset our calcs before tests, so we don't cheat (Ha! Like we would 
>ever 
>do such a thing. NOT!)  Anyways, this program would allow us to run 
>the 
>program ahead of time, so that when the teacher goes to reset the 
>calc,  
>we don't have to fumble around trying to run the program really quick 
>before they get a hold of it.  Then the teacher would procede as usual 
>
>and finish resetting the calc.  Then once you get it back, you do 
>somthing to unreset it (perhaps something like a multiple key press).  
>I 
>don't have an 85 some I don't know exactly how it works, byt mabey 
>some 
>with an 85 could check it out.
>
>    Please don't disregard this my ideas, not that I'm accusing the 
>list 
>of doing so.  It's just that I realize that I'm not nearly as involved 
>
>in the list as much as some of you other guys, and there my ideas 
>might 
>not stand out as much as the more frequent an widely respected posters 
>
>on the list.
>
>Thanks,
>Kevin
>
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