Re: A82: Some questions and other stuff


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Re: A82: Some questions and other stuff




In a message dated 98-05-14 14:46:13 EDT, you write:

> Here are some questions that I wanted to ask for a long time
>  
>  1) My maths teacher has a ti82 with a special port on the back 
>  to which he can attach a kind of big screen. The screen has to be 
>  placed on an overhead projector. I know that his rom version is 19.0 
>  but I'm wondering if the code in the rom is different because of that 
>  port. Is there a special routine necessary to get that port working ?

The viewscreen calc!  no, the ROM should be the same if it has the same ROM
version.  I'm not sure that anyone knows about the viewscreen port

>  
>  2) Does anyone has other usefull romcalls/calls not listed in 
>  ti82-rom.txt? And shouldn't the ti82-xx.txt files have an update?

what do you mean an update?  I think they're fine

>  
>  3) Where did Dines & CrASH_Man go ?

nowhere, they just haven't had anything to talk about probably

>  
>  4) some program ideas :
>  
>  - a program to easily change the names of programs and (un)lock them. 
>  You could also hide seperate programs this way. I tried to make 
>  something like this, but I can't get it to work.

sounds interesting.  This would be good in a TSR that can run under TI-OS

>  
>  - a trainer for different games. e.g. to choose the initial amount 
>  of lives. It could ask which game that should be cheated on and then 
>  copy some code to change the right byte to APD_BUF, de-relocating the 
>  cheating prog, changing the byte, relocating the cheating prog. 
>  de-relocating and re-relocating could be done with some crash code 
>  used in CR_KHAND I guess.

WHAT?

>  
>  Tell me what you think of these ideas
>  
>  Wouter

good ideas

~Adamman