Re: A83: Joining memory

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A83: Joining memory
From: ComAsYuAre@aol.com
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 19:53:36 EDT
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org

Duuuuude the link port on the calculator is crap.  It's useful for 
transferring tiny bits of 
"lossable" data, such as the other player's position/score.  It would be 
entirely impractical, if not impossible, to share program data over the link 
in realtime.  And plus, as you pointed out, you would have to have the 
opposite half of the program for it to even work.

In a message dated 8/12/00 7:51:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
apparatus@mediaone.net writes:

> I was reading some of the TI-Chess 89 chess articles on ticalc and an
>  interesting idea popped into my head. The TI-83 only have 27K or so of
>  memory. If someone is making a larger program and the game is for two
>  players through the link there could be two versions of the game. One would
>  hold the first half of the game data and the other version would hold the
>  second half of the game data. Then a game could be around 50K and work on
>  the 83. Of course one problem with this would be that only version one 
could
>  play with version two. Version one wouldn't be able to play with version 
one
>  or version two with version two. Just wanted to run this idea by everyone 
to
>  see what everyone thinks.

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Jonah Cohen
<ComAsYuAre@aol.com>
http://jonah.ticalc.org