Re: A86: Down and left arrow bug
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Re: A86: Down and left arrow bug
If you program the Z80 you may heard of the instruction "di" (Disable
Interrupts), and "ei" (Enable Interrupts)..
Odviously this will not help you out---- the games must be redesigned to
support this "8-directional" keypad.
- Cyber Optic
http://www.dogtech.com/cybop/ti86/
>How do you disable the interrrupts
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>>Disabling the interrupts prevents this.
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>> -Andrew
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>>At 09:45 PM 9/19/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>>I've noticed that when you press the down and left arrow keys at the
>>>same time on the 86, that it freezes the calc temporarily. It doesn't
>>>do this on the 85 so I'm assuming this is a bug of some sort. The
>>>reason this is of concern of course is that that eliminates the
>>>possibility of games with 8-directional control. (like some of those
>>>side or top scrolling space shoot-em-up's on the 85). Anyways.. this
>>>happens no matter where you are in the calc: shell, graphing, and ASM
>>>programs. The exception is Penguins. What is the deal here? Is this
>>>because Penguins uses its own function for checking keypresses instead
>>>of the built in one?
>>>
>>>Chris
>>>-------------------------
>>>chrisg@nauticom.net
>>>
>>>"Windows95 sucks less... Linux doesn't suck"
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