Re: A86: Wow


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Re: A86: Wow




> Also did anyone realize that the 
> calculator doesn't clear the memory
> at _asm_exec_ram after the last 
> assembly program been run.  Anyway,
> everyone probably already knew that,
> and there's probably know way of using
> this useless piece of knowledge.

Yes, I've known this for a while but the only time it's actually
made a difference for me was when I was playing Joltima 86.
It seems Joltima somehow damages itself when run on the 86,
possibly through the way it saves games or by some form of
module-loading.  When you go to run Joltima again after
exiting, the calculator locks up and you have to pull a battery
to get back to the homescreen (memory intact).  To prevent
this from happening, you have to run another program in
between running Joltima twice in a row so that the calculator
will reload the Joltima into asm_exec.