Re: A83: External Level

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A83: External Level
From: "Revenant" <revenant_1@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 07:14:10 PDT
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I just copied the detect thing from the zlib source so that it doesn't 
have to be for any specific shell :->

>Bingo!  That's what I wanted...I don't want to limit my tutorials to a
>shell, though...although, yeah that's another good idea...support for 
SOS
>and AShell.  Or perhaps screw BN, and go just with my friend Joe's OS
>:)...hehehehehe.
>
>I'll look into it...
>
>> what are you talking about? external levels are stored in programs. 
to
>> access them, depending on your implementation, you can either look 
for
>> them by name...
>> 
>> ex:
>> prgmZNAME___
>> 
>> where ZNAME is the prefix for every level, and ___ is the name of the
>> level. a good example is penguins or slopes).
>> 
>> ...or store a standard level detection string at the beginning of the
>> level. this is the method used in the zlib detect routine. and if you
>> must know, using this routine is much smaller and easier than writing
>> your own routine. for a good example of using this method check out 
the
>> source to bytes (it's an sos program).
>> 
>
>



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