Re: LZ: Grayscale
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Re: LZ: Grayscale
Just use the deTurbo program... It works with grayscale (NOT grayscale ZShell programs... yet)
Andreas
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> Von: Andrew Von Dollen <warn@mail.geocities.com>
> An: list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
> Betreff: Re: LZ: Grayscale
> Datum: Saturday, June 21, 1997 4:02 AM
>
> At 01:54 PM 6/19/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >I was wondering if anyone here (besides myself) had a turboed calc. If
> so, I would appreciate it if you would help me to change graylibf.asm so it
> flips pages slow enough for it to be used w/ turbo. If anyone has a fairly
> decent understanding of graylibf.asm, please E-mail me Privately! BTW, I'm
> not using USGARD, so it won't help if usgard has a special version (nothing
> against you or USGARD, andreas. I'm still using ZSHELL 4.0!) I haven't
> even tried usgard yet!
> >
> >Buddy Smith
> >ti85calc@bellsouth.net
> >"I need a new quote--the ones i have are getting old"
> >
>
> I have found that greyscale programs will run on a turboed calculator if
> the batteries are near dead, but they are still too fast to be playable.
> This is a problem that might be fixed if someone were to write a greyscale
> de-turbo program for USGARD (I think I remember reading that USGARD
> supports "chaining" of interrupts, which would make this possible (before
> it was not possible)) I might take a stab at this someday, it shouldn't be
> that hard.
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but the pages are flipped at exactly the same
> rate on a turboed calculator as on a normal one, for the same reason as
> ZTestris runs well on a turboed calculator, they are both interrupt driven
> and the frequency of interrupts is the same on both turbo and normal
> calculators. So this is not really the problem, it is just that the
> instructions are being executed too fast, as is the problem with normal
> black and white programs.
>
> -Andrew