Re: A86: Please read this!!! New shell!!! I need help!

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: Please read this!!! New shell!!! I need help!
From: HBeaver1@aol.com
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 05:16:26 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org

Ok, first of all, how many times has your teacher actually looked to see if
you are playing games on your calc.  Second, I don't think this needs a whole
lot of discussion.  There are better things to talk about than what kind of
teacher thingy you want.  Most games allow you to pause, say to get to your
next class, but I think a "multitasking" teacher key would be more work,
space, and time than it is worth.

~Chris

P.S.  If you respond to this message before you receive it, would you please
tell me how?

In a message dated 9/10/97 8:00:19 AM, butler2@erols.com wrote:

>Whoever is the original writer should try to get back on track about
>more important things.  This is a device (since people are complaining
>about calling it a calc) that runs at 6mhz which is roughly 1/28 the
>speed of a 166, considering megaherz speed then consider having very few
>ROM instructions compared to a normal 166 w/o MMX making it probably
>1/40 or worse the speed of a pentium. making 'multitasking' not worth
>it. so just have the shell be its own TSR so u can have a teacher key.
>i think thats reasonable since you dont have to download 500mb files or
>do something else time consuming which is the main reason for
>multi-tasking.  The part about saving high score games should be left up
>to the game programmers to decide what to do the best example is
>ztetris  (thanx Jimmy for making a good game) where it saves important
>stuff so u can come back and play
>
>Signed
>Patrick
>
>P.s. the taskbar is a great idea if u used multitasking but only for
>something with extra screen space