Re: A86: Linking 85<-->86

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Subject: Re: A86: Linking 85<-->86
From: "A. El-Helw" <ahmedre@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:01:28 -0400
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The reason this happens is because ASE [all versions] and probably Rascall
as well save/write back the string.. this causes it to save high scores,
which also causes an 85 incompatibility... now something like a Sqrxz 85
world or a Plain Jump level SHOULD work, although I haven't tried..
								-Ahmed

At 04:32 PM 4/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I was transfering some zshell games to my 86 from my friend's 85 (isn't
>emulation great?!) and I had a couple of questions:
>
>1) Why do the newer versions (I am running 1.0) of ASE corrupt zshell
>strings?  Well, not actually corrupt, but ZShell gives ***BAD CHECKSUM***
>error.  I think it has to do with how it stores which group it's in.  If
>that's all, could someone write an oncalc prog to fix the checksum?  (might
>be a nice project for me to learn z80...)
>
>2) Since you can backup your 85 to the 86 (IMHO, a feature TI should have
>left on the 86 when linking to the computer), what would happen if you (try
>to) send ZShell or another shell to the 86?
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>David Phillips
>electrum@tfs.net
>
>
Ahmed El-Helw
ahmedre@worldnet.att.net
http://home.att.net/~ahmedre
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A86: Linking 85<-->86

From: David Phillips <electrum@tfs.net>

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