Re: A86: more on writing/running an asm prog.
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Re: A86: more on writing/running an asm prog.
OK can we please stop this before it turns into one of those things that
PO's on of the better programmers(Kirk comes to mind) of the list and
then causes them to drop off? I don't wanna have another thing like the
"fabled"battery incident(which I've only heard of thts why its
"fabled"). Thanks
Matt
>From: "Chuck Mason" <chuckjr@sundial.net>
>To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
>Subject: Re: A86: more on writing/running an asm prog.
>Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 05:29:50 -0400
>Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
>
>
>I understood that downloading or recieving the rom was legal so long as
you
>actually owned a ti86. Perhaps I'm wrong?
>
>-Chuck
>
>----------
>> From: Andy Johnson <prjohnson@utahlinx.com>
>> To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
>> Subject: Re: A86: more on writing/running an asm prog.
>> Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 1:07 AM
>>
>>
>> At 12:40 AM 9/11/98 +0200, you wrote:
>> >
>> >_almost_ :-)
>> >
>> >Just distributing ROMs on the net is illegal.
>>
>> Yes, but technically (we do love that word) copying the ROM from the
calc
>> for any use except backup purposes (and what would you do if the rom
>failed
>> anyway?) including emulation is also illegal.
>> >--
>> >Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
>> > File Archives, News, Features, Newsletter, and HTML
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>> >
>> >On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, JBrett wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> But the CGI is almost foolproof.
>> >> >That is still technically illegal.
>> >> >
>> >> >--
>> >> >Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
>> >> > File Archives, News, Features, Newsletter, and HTML
>> >> > the ticalc.org project - http://www.ticalc.org/
>> >> >
>> >> >On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Andy Johnson wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> At 03:11 PM 9/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >BlAsTo1414@aol.com wrote:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> ok,
>> >> >> >> if I got a prog on my pc and wrote the asm code there, could
I
>> >> >> eventually > copy
>> >> >> >> the code over to my 86 by the same way you would basic code?
>like
>> >> print it
>> >> >> >> out from my pc and just copy it by hand to my 86?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >Um, sorta. You'd have to copy the hex codes of the compiled
>program.
>> >> >> >That would be long and hard and one little mistake could be
>absolutely
>> >> >> >disastrous. You cannot type in the raw code like in BASIC.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> but if I did that, i dont
>> >> >> >> want to be canstantly copying new code to my 86. is there a
way
>to
>> >> run asm
>> >> >> >> progs on my pc, before i copy them to my 86?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >Yes, use an emulator, which requires a ROM dump. However, to
get a
>ROM
>> >> >> >dump, you need to dump your own ROM, because using somebody
else's
>is
>> >> >> >illegal. However again, to get a ROM dump, you need the Link.
>There is
>> >> >> >no other way.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> There is another way. Go to
>> >> >> http://www.dogtech.com/cybop_cgiwin/optic.exe?ROMdownload, you
>enter a
>> >> >> small asm program to verify you do indeed have a calc, and you
can
>> >> download
>> >> >> a copy of the rom to run on the emulator.
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> Andy Johnson <prjohnson@utahlinx.com>
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> --
>> Andy Johnson <prjohnson@utahlinx.com>
>
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