Re: A89: ** Doors OS v0.8 released **
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Re: A89: ** Doors OS v0.8 released **
At 06:09 20/10/98 +0200, you wrote:
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>Is Rusty still going to develop PlusShell too?
Yes. He is currently working on it.
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>Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
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>On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Xavier VASSOR - The Doors Team wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We've just released Doors OS v0.8:
>> It is an assembly shell for both TI89 and TI92 Plus.
>> It uses the common file format we've decided with Rusty Wagner and which
>> allows the use of the programs on both TI89 and TI92 Plus.
>>
>> The Anti Crash protection is implemented !
>> When a error occurs, Doors takes control of the calculator and exits the
>> assembly program.
>>
>> Included are a few sample programs and two libraries:
>> - userlib: idle_loop, random, exec, WriteCharXY etc.. are included here
>> - graphlib: about 20 graphical functions:
>> - gray4 and gray7 support
>> - 2 clear screen functions (display status line or not)
>> - draw dialog boxes (2 types of dialog boxes)
>> - draw horizontal, vertical lines; draw frames
>> - 3 putsprite functions
>> - a fill function: black, white or video inversion: it is fast !
>> - All can be used with grayscales !
>> - only 1.9 Kb for this all.
>>
>> We included a 'moremem' program: it makes you have 64Kb Archive memory
more !!
>> There are a few samples progs:
>> - hello : the classic one
>> - graytst : a 4 grayscale test program
>> - graphtst: dialog box example.
>>
>> We added a few docs: RAM&ROM, file header, keyboard matrix, kernel info.
>> They are not completely finished and our english is quite bad but this
>> should help anyway.
>>
>> To programmers:
>> Please read the docs to be sure that your progs will run on both 89 and 92
>> Plus.
>> To port programs from Fargo, you should include the compat.h file. It
>> contains aliases for some functions and variables. But it may be not
>> sufficient for everything (VAT, a few keycodes,...)
>>
>> We hope you will enjoy it.
>>
>>
>> PS: If some one wants to help us to improve our english in the docs, he's
>> very welcome !
>>
>>
>> Xavier VASSOR
>> ---The Doors Team
>> E-mail:xvassor@mail.dotcom.fr
>> Doors Homepage: http://doorshome.home.ml.org (not updated for Doors OS)
>> ICQ:10241721
>>
>
>
Xavier VASSOR
---The Doors Team
E-mail:xvassor@mail.dotcom.fr
Doors Homepage: http://doorshome.home.ml.org (not updated for Doors OS)
ICQ:10241721
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