Re: A83: Lots of questions. Please help.


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Re: A83: Lots of questions. Please help.




In a message dated 3/3/00 11:11:30 AM Central Standard Time, 
engelen@hotpop.com writes:

>  I included a program I am working on, and in which I have ran into a 
>  very strange (well, to me) problem. When you compile it (with tasm 
>  and devpak83) like this, it works without problems. But when you 
>  add, say, six 'nop's anywhere in the program, some memory seems
>  to get corrupted. Try 'walking' the cursorto the lower right of the 
>  lower-right screen, thus the last element, and pressing 'up'.
>  
>  I have only tried this program with emu83, since the link cable I made
>  didn't work (linktest works, I have tried (almost) everything in the faq
>  and used a 486sx. Still the computer and calculator act as if they are 
>  not connected). Can anybody check if it really works on a calc? And
>  performance? Many things still need optimization. 
>  
>  In emu83, the program seems to 'leak memory', the amount of total
>  memory decreases when using the program. Why, and how can I
>  avoid this?
>  
>  In VTI, the program malfunctions after the calc has 'fallen asleep' and
>  came back again. This problem persists until after a calculator reset.
>  Why? Does this also happen on 'real' calcs?
>  
>  I copyrighted this software only for 'legal purposes'. You can copy it
>  all you want, as long as you're not tying to make money over my back.
>  
>  The value of OP1 as shown in the lower bar is sometimes not zero 
>  (1,01, which is the mass of H) at startup, which is solved when you 
>  do not just press 'enter' to restart the program but explicitly choose
>  it from the 'prgm' menu. Why/How-To-Fix?
>  
>  I will quickly summarize what the program does:
>  I created an image of a periodic table, divided into 4 parts that all
>  take up a screen. When you push a button, the element-cursor is 
>  either increased, decreased or the new location is looked up in a 
>  table. When 'enter' is pressed, the molecule-mass is added to op1,
>  which value is shown at the lower bar. In the upper bar is the name
>  of the element under the cursor (in Dutch).
>  
>  That's it for now. I'd appreciate it if you could help me out with this.
>  Note that this is the first program I have ever written in asm (apart
>  from that useless compression routine), so code is messy. It is 
>  reasonably documented, though. I have barely optimized anything
>  yet, since I first want to get it to work.
>  
>  Please help,
>  
>  Arnout
>  arnout.engelen@beer.com
>  
>  (ps is it OK to send attachments to this list? I have seen it happen
>  before, so I figured it wouldn't be much of a problem. Sorry if it 
>  bothers you.)

Maybe im just out of it, but I did not receive an attachment with this mail, 
nor do I see any code within the mail body. Some of your complications sound 
too weird to explain in a general sense for what could be causing the 
problem, so we would need to see the source to look for major screw ups... 
Dont worry about posting your code here, because its not like anyone would 
want it anyways, with such problems in it at this time... :>

Jason_K