RE: A83: Running ASM programs

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: RE: A83: Running ASM programs
From: "James Vernon" <jimbob_v@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:59:03 EST
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org


On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 11:22:05 +0200, Sebastiaan Roodenburg wrote:
> >   Because some people don't like to use shells such as AShell83 or
> > SOS.. and
> > besides, not all ASM programs are compatible with these shells. It was
> > just
> > a suggestion. If I can work out how SOS runs programs I might make a
> > new
> > ZASMLOAD, if people will use it.. it's just that I've got my own
> > projects to
> > work on at the moment.
> >
>Hi!
>
>Running programs the way SOS, AShell or TI-Explorer do it, in't that
>hard:
>
>It copy's a litle routine to CMDSHADOW, which swaps the program with the
>memory at 9327h, calls 9327h and swaps the stuff back....
>
>So when you make a small ZASMLOAD-Like program, you'll have the same
>problems as using a shell:
>- CMDSHADOW can't be used
>- Some files can not be accessed (that' why INSTALL is used for lib's:
>to mkae sure these can be accessed)
>- When your program is stopped by the user (pressing [ON] at an
>_GetKey), lot's of memory is screwed up: the program is replaced by
>other data and the other data is replaced by the program --> one big
>mess in memory...
>
>Hope this helpes!
>
>grtx,
>
>Sebastiaan Roodenburg
>sebastiaan@rimsystems.nl
><< attach3 >>

  All right, thanx for that Sebastiaan. I might make it, maybe not. We'll 
see how I go for time...

James Vernon
jimbob_v@hotmail.com


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