Re: A86: Large ASM


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Re: A86: Large ASM




I agree %100.2!
His shell is entirly useless!
All of his "features" have already been accomplished.
Note to Patrick:
Please stop the distribution of your program
I truely doubt that any of us will use it.
"Users" might try it, but when they realize that they can't play any of 
their favorite games, they will trash it and talk about how much it sucks.
I understand you've put a lot of work into it, but it WILL fail.

Cavan


>From: ComAsYuAre@aol.com
>Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
>To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
>CC: pwong0124@hotmail.com
>Subject: A86: Large ASM
>Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 21:16:03 EDT
>
>
>This Patrick Wong guy is up to it AGAIN...
>
>Anyway, this is yet another email regarding Patrick Wong's
>(pwong0124@hotmail.com) latest shell, Large ASM, which supposedly supports
>executing programs up to 32k in size.  Although that's a very nice concept,
>I'd like to discourage anybody from supporting this incompatible format for 
>a
>number of reasons:
>   1. It states support up to 32k, but in fact any program exceeding 16k in
>size cannot access ANY rom calls.
>   2. If you wanted to send the program to another calc, you would have to
>RESET IT!  Large ASM requires certain programs to be in specific locations 
>of
>memory, which makes distribution essentially impossible.
>   3. His "solution" to accidentally executing large programs with Asm( --
>having the first opcode be a "ret" -- is entirely ineffective because any
>program exceeding 9000 bytes in size will overwrite the stack and instantly
>crash.
>   4. The "feature" where it automatically writes back all data renders
>compression such as lite86 useless, meaning that "large" programs would be
>made 20-40% larger just by using the technology.
>
>Currently the TI-86 is the ONLY ti calculator not requiring a shell to run
>any asm program.  In my opinion, this is a beautiful thing, because there
>needs to be only one version of every program released rather than a dozen
>ports; also, old programs don't have to constantly be converted to the 
>latest
>and greatest shell that just came out.  No programs are left behind.  If we
>all stick with standards, things will remain that way.  Yet Patrick Wong
>wants to take all that away from you just because he doesn't feel like
>storing data in a string.
>
>
>----
>Jonah Cohen
><ComAsYuAre@aol.com>
>http://jonah.ticalc.org
>

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