Re: A85: TI-89 Assembly Shell?


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Re: A85: TI-89 Assembly Shell?




Ben Sferrazza wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A topic here that might spark some interest.  As most of you probably
> already know, one of the new calculators coming out from TI is the TI-89
> (a pretty nice calculator indeed).  It has tons of memory, a high
> resolution screen, and the 68000 micro.  Certainly TI is providing
> built-in assembly support, but of course it is probably going to be
> rather limited.  This leads me to my proposition/question.  I feel that
> as a group effort (of those who are interested) we should develop,
> overtime, a standard assembly kernel/shell to extend on the rather
> limited assembly support that TI will provide...such as Dynamic-Link
> Library support, TSR support, etc.  I would hate to see the TI-89 mimick
> the myriad of different shells for the TI-85, etc.  How is the assembly
> support for the TI-86?  Is it sufficient?  Are there any true assembly
> shells for the 86?  Well if anyone is interested in initiating such a
> project let us all know.  We can certainly begin discussions and even
> work and share code segments.  One nice thing about the 89 is that by it
> having flash ROM one can assume everyone to have the latest ROM version
> (no messy JP tables, etc).  Hope this helps a dead list.
> 
> Ben

Shell-developers is an even more dead list, take this discussion there.
:)

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