Re: A86: YOU CAN NOT PROGRAM ASSEMBLY DIRECTLY ON THE 86!!!!


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Re: A86: YOU CAN NOT PROGRAM ASSEMBLY DIRECTLY ON THE 86!!!!



what you typed in on the calc was not ASM.  it was a hex representation of
the machine code.

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> From: ariwsi@juno.com
> To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: Re: A86: YOU CAN NOT PROGRAM ASSEMBLY DIRECTLY ON THE 86!!!!
> Date: Monday, August 25, 1997 8:26 PM
> 
> On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 20:02:55 -0400 (EDT) rwk@peganet.com writes:
> 
> >I am tired of everyone asking "how do you type the asm in on the 
> >calc"...YOU CAN'T.  You have to type it in on the computer, compile
> >it, and then copy it to the calc via a link.  Unless someone writes
> >a compiler that runs on the calc you can't do it.
> 
> Wrong!  I don't even own a TI-86 of my own, but I managed to type an
> ASM program on a TI-86 calculator that I borrowed while at school.
> 
> Just type in this as program "REVERSE"
> 
> :AsmPrgm
> :0600
> :2100FC
> :7E
> :2F
> :77
> :23
> :10FA
> :010000
> :0B
> :78
> :B1
> :000000000000
> :0000000000
> :20F0
> :C9
> 
> And then type on the home screen
> 
> ASM(REVERSE)
> 
> And there you have it!  An assembler program that you typed in to
> the calculator, and it works!  When I made it, it worked the very
> first time!  Of course, doing anything complex in this way is not
> feasible, but typing in ASM is possible!
> 
> Remember that this program will run much faster than a TI-BASIC program
> which does the same thing!  If you assemble a program on the computer
> and specify the -h parameter to TASM, TASM will generate a hex table
> of the code at the bottom of the listing file.  You can then type in
> these hex codes as your program.  Of course, you need to type over
> 6,000 characters to enter ZTetris in this way...