Re: SV: A82: Orzunoid tidbits
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Re: SV: A82: Orzunoid tidbits
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Per-Axel Eriksson wrote:
>
> This was probably the worst bullshit I have ever read!
> There is definitly something very wrong with you!!!
> /P-A
>
Yep. I was drunk. I've said it as many times as I'm going to. I'll be able
to think logically later today.
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Robert Caldwell <rc_ware@hotmail.com>
> Till: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org>
> Datum: den 2 maj 1998 04:23
> Ämne: Re: A82: Orzunoid tidbits
>
>
> >
> >>>THAT GAME IS GREAT. I always loved text based games, either by text
> >>>based graphically or text based as in typing the path you wish to take
> >>>(go north, drop item, etc.). Thanks for the game. It looks like it
> >was
> >>>made in QB (size and feel of it), but looking at the hex codes it
> >looks
> >>>like C. Either way I think the game is great, and I think I'll make
> >my
> >>>own version of it (he he).
> >
> >>You try to sound like a wise man, but fall very short. Why? I haven't
> >been
> >>able to make a TI game with QB or C, so how can anyone else? We use
> >ASM,
> >>baby, the language of people who like speed.
> >
> >I was talking about Rogue.exe...I hexed viewed it and it had stuff like
> >"malloc(%d)" which is something C and C++ leaves behind as a "signature"
> >type thing. Just like QBASIC leaves behind the filename near the
> >beginning of the file and also a line like "RETURN without GOSUB"
> >somewhere in it, C and C++ leave behind "trash" (I call it this because
> >if your program is errorfree then you don't need the error messages). I
> >love speed, and I know ASM, but I said that the program "looked" like it
> >was made in QB or C, not that I really meant that it
> >absolutely-positively-without-a-doubt-was made in QB or C.
> >
> >>I'll give you this - ASM is
> >>similar to C. In fact, C is based on ASM (and in a way, the TI ASM is
> >MUCH
> >>closer to C).
> >
> >I'm not a moron, I know let's see, from bottom up: Electronics,
> >digital, CPU architecture, ASM, modular ASM, C, QC, C++, BASIC, QBASIC,
> >VBDOS, VB, VC, VC++, HTML, and a little Javascript. TI ASM I know how
> >it basically works, but since I can't grasp the motorola's architecture
> >completely, I can't completely understand it's commands. Yes, I'm a PC
> >guy and not a MAC user, but that doesn't mean I don't know how to use a
> >MAC, nor my calculator. I'm trying to learn TI ASM, but with all these
> >errors that the calculators have been having through doing the backup
> >(from what I've heard), I'm afraid of making something and it either (a)
> >not compiling, (b) not linking, (c) not having a specific library, (d)
> >not being able to locate the library, etc. I just don't want to crash
> >or mess up anything right now (I've already killed my 85).
> >
> >>Man, you MUST be new to the TI scene. Lemme also guess that you are a
> >grad
> >>of the QBasic scene.
> >
> >Yeah, I guess you can say for being on this list the past month that I'm
> >fairly new to this LIST. I know exactly what's going on in the world of
> >TI. I didn't get on this list to seek out what the world of TI is
> >about, I got on here to help and to learn actual assembly. I voice my
> >opinion about a game being great and you go off flaming me and making me
> >look like a fool, now who's ignorant?
> >
> >You could say I'm a grad of the QB scene, whatever that means. I knew
> >QB for 5 or so years, and I've only recently taken classes in it (so I
> >can have a record). People in my class make stuff like "Average three
> >numbers that the user inputs and print it on the screen" while I do
> >individual projects like "Make a DNA-double helix model rotate on the
> >screen in 3d space with the ability for the user to get a virtual hands
> >on at it" or even "Make an ASM compiler that uses encryption bases so
> >that people can't edit the code, and also make it very versatile to
> >pkzip (instead of 20% it's around 40-60% compression)."
> >
> >-Rob
> >ICQ:9188921 "No Sol to kill"
> >e-mail1:rc_ware@hotmail.com
> >e-mail2:rc_ware@yahoo.com
> >e-mail3:rc_ware@geocities.com
> >webpage:http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/4049/index.html
> >
> >>BTW, do yourself a favor and read the ASH/CrASH documentation
> >>sometime. I
> >>read your webpage and it does sound like you're a bonafide >programmer.
> >You
> >>just need to learn a little bit more about 82 ASM.
> >
> >Do MYSELF a favor? I think I know what I'm doing. First of all I don't
> >even own an 82, so why would I read documentation on the 82's innards?
> >The only calculators I own are an HP48GX, Casio, TI-92, and a ROM-broken
> >TI-85. I use the 82s at school, and I program BASIC stuff on them for
> >my APCalc and Physics classes for the students who can't do the
> >trig/algebra/geometry/calc in their heads. And why would I EVER get a
> >program named "crash" if I'm worried about my calculator crashing?
> >
> >As for my webpage, I'm a programmer and designer. I also invent things
> >and think up weird philosophies. I work with my biology teacher about
> >molecular biology (trying to make a Quad-helix dna). I help people out
> >with problems because I could make a great psychologist. I teach myself
> >everything before I even enter a class on it, just so I can stay one
> >step ahead of everyone (let's me know if the teacher is teaching right,
> >and if not I can correct him so the other students "get it"). In the
> >future if I can I'll major in Electronic engineering, Computer
> >engineering, Programming, molecular biology, and psychology. For now
> >that's all I want to be, later I may want more. I'm not God, but in
> >order for me to help others, I have to know more than those I'm
> >helping...it's much easier to lower yourself to others then it is either
> >for them to lower themselves, or for you to raise yourself. Since I'm
> >doing all this "stuff" I haven't time to fix my website, or even update
> >it. By this summer I may have my own domain anyway (WOOHOO, no more
> >stupid geocities advertisement, and no more of this hotmail or yahoo).
> >
> >I know I need to learn 82 ASM, but when I finally RECEIVE an 82, I'll
> >learn it. As of now I think I'm aloud to say if a program is good or
> >not, can't I? And for those programs, I can read ANY language and
> >actually see what is happening in the program (because all languages are
> >basically the same, be it "PRINT" for basic, "DISP" for tibasic, "ADD"
> >for asm, "AppActivate" for vb, "malloc()" for c, or "throw the steak to
> >the lions" for english).
> >
> >I guess people could say I'm gifted, I don't think so, I just learned
> >"if I put my mind to it, I can accomplist anything." I actually envy
> >normal people at times, I've lost common sense through my learnings, and
> >also lost some other things. I sometimes have memory lapses that make
> >me forget a whole day to a whole week (it usually comes back, only
> >temporary), during that time I have no idea what I'm doing. Like this
> >letter, I may forget it tomorrow, but by Monday I may remember it. I
> >wish I were normal.
> >
> >-Rob
> >signature above
> >
> >______________________________________________________
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> >
>
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