RE: A86: Bug in ROM 1.3?


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RE: A86: Bug in ROM 1.3?



I have (or had once) ROM version 1.4 and 1.6, and when it does slient
linking it stops the cursor while it is sending and starts back up when it
is finnished. Maybe when you transfer the file it is not being completed.
Hope i helped. :-)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
> [mailto:owner-assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of David Phillips
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 9:21 PM
> To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: A86: Bug in ROM 1.3?
>
>
>
> Has anyone else had problems with silent linking with ROM version 1.3?
> Several times, my calc has locked up at the homescreen while sending
> variables to it using CalcExplorer 86.  When it locks up, the
> cursor simply
> stays on instead of flashing and no keys will restore it.  A
> simple pull of
> a AAA restores it, but it gets annoying, being in the ROM and all.
>
> Any ideas?  Most of the times this has occured (I know for
> certain about the
> last time), my game is the only thing that has run since the calc
> was reset.
> I'm wondering if I'm somehow corrupting something to make it lock
> up during
> a variable transfer.  The only memory I'm modifying is $8000+11
> to $c000-22,
> $c9fa to $c9fa+1023 and $d748 to $ffff, so I know I'm not trashing any of
> the system vars.  I'm not doing any writing to any other ram
> pages, so it's
> not trashing the VAT.  Could this be a legitimate ROM bug???
>
> --
> David Phillips <david@acz.org>
> http://www.acz.org/
>
>
>
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