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Re: A83: Re: Where is...


You can only do that insert mem thing if you want to make your program not
work in a shell. For about 10 more bytes you could make it work from within
a shell or from the home screen. :P

Joe Wingbermuehle
http://www.usmo.com/~joewing/

-----Original Message-----
From: Linus Akesson <lairfight@softhome.net>
To: Joe Wingbermuehle <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: A83: Re: Where is...


>
>If you only need the memory as long as the program is running (which is
often
>the case), you can just use an insertmem/delmem pair, inserting memory at
the
>end of your program. Then have a label at the end of the program, and use
it
>to address the allocated memory.
>
>Another thing Phelan, are you loading this data from an external program
>file? Because in that case you could just look the program up, and it'd
>already be in memory! If you don't, you could try to redesign the program
to
>work in this way, as it saves memory.
>
>Linus
>
>On 17-Oct-98, Joe Wingbermuehle wrote:
>
>>In Chip83 I allocate 3810 bytes of ram by creating a temporary program. I
>>think creating a program is probably your best bet, instead of making your
>>program 2k bigger.
>
>>Joe Wingbermuehle
>>http://www.usmo.com/~joewing/
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Phelan Wolf <phelanwolf@hotmail.com>
>>To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
>>Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 9:54 PM
>>Subject: Re: A83: Re: Where is...
>
>
>>>
>>>ok, I thought that SAVESCREEN and APD are two separate things.  Thanks
>>>anyway.  I need 2024bytes to load 4 blocks, 72 map squares per block,
>>>each block is 108bytes.  So I used SAVESCREEN for misc vars, and
>>>STATVARS for the map table, I guess I'll have stuff inside my prog for
>>>the rest.
>>>
>>>-Phelan 'Amen' Wolf
>>>
>>>>APD RAM is at $8265, 768 bytes.
>>>>btw, a good way of allocating memory under a shell is to create a
>>>program,
>>>>then delete it when it is no longer needed.
>>>>
>>>>Joe Wingbermuehle
>>>>http://www.usmo.com/~joewing/
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Phelan Wolf <phelanwolf@hotmail.com>
>>>>To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
>>>>Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 6:50 PM
>>>>Subject: A83: Where is...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Joe, Linus, matt, or somebody, where is the APD found???  Need it to
>>>sto
>>>>>stuff in, a level map containing data of where crap be found.
>>>>>
>>>>>-Thanks:  Phelan 'Amen' Wolf
>>>>>
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