Re: A83: SOS
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Re: A83: SOS
But if we're talking about size, then wouldn't including it in the shell reduce the overall size all
of the programs take up?
-Miles Raymond
-----Original Message-----
From: Ahmed El-Helw <ahmed@ticalc.org>
To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 9:23 PM
Subject: RE: A83: SOS
>Joe really wants to make his shell small, Sam. So go figure.
>-Ahmed
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
>> [mailto:owner-assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of Evil Sam
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 10:20 PM
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>> Subject: A83: SOS
>>
>> This probably a dumb question, but why in 83 ASM does the shell not do
>> the proper set/res commands and clearing neccessary for running ASM
>> programs. For example, practically every program needs res/set 1,(iy+13)
>> to avoid altering the TEXT_MEM (text shadow). Also every game needs to
>> clear the GRAPH_MEM and TEXT_MEM before exiting back to the shell. Other
>> set/res commands like set/res 2,(iy+13) or set/res 6,(iy+9) are also
>> important in many games.
>> There are ~12 different set/res commands that are run before and
>> after a ASM program is run on the 82 so the programmer doesn't have to
>> worry about it, so why can't that be done on the 83 as well?
>>
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