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WHAT??? Then fix the bloody shell so that it's compatible! (Hmm...)

Linus

On 17-Oct-98, Joe Wingbermuehle wrote:

>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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