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I'm afraid that that really wouldn't be practical. :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: Sunday, October 18, 1998 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: A83: Re: Where is...


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>WHAT??? Then fix the bloody shell so that it's compatible! (Hmm...)
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>Linus
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>On 17-Oct-98, Joe Wingbermuehle wrote:
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>>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/
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>>-----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...
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>>>
>>>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...
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>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>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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