Re: A85: Forgot this!!

To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A85: Forgot this!!
From: Sam Heald <evil_sam@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:11:14 PDT
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>Oh yeah, Yoshi85 crashes the calc
>when I exit the game.  Is it just my calc or is it happening to everyone
>else?


  It has not happened to me. I tried it out for about an hour exiting at 
random places. Does it happen every time? If you exit from the title screen 
(before playing the game), does it crash? Does it occur if you exit manually 
or if you wait until GAMEOVER?

  I took a quick look at the source, and I found one small thing that may or 
may not be the bug that you are referring to. Yoshi uses TEXT_MEM, but it 
lacks the neccessary set/res command to use that area. I'll forward the new 
85s to you to see if that solves the problem.


>  One more quick question:  How easy is it to port from 83/82/86 to
>85?  I don't see a lot of ports of sweet games for the 82/83/86 to >85. 

   It really depends on the game/programmer. 85 porting is difficult 
(annoying is more like it) due to those stupid & signs. You practically need 
to go through a source code line by line putting them in. As a general rule, 
it's easier to move up in TI numbers, than down. Converting 82 games is 
easy, 83 games are a little harder, 86 games can be either easy or hard 
depending on the programmer (usually, the better the game, the harder to 
port).
   Sam


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