Re: A89: THOSE TI BASTARDS!!!

To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: Re: A89: THOSE TI BASTARDS!!!
From: "Scott Noveck" <noveck@pluto.njcc.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:56:37 -0500
Reply-To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org


>>But: ASSEMBLY PROGRAMS ARE NOW LIMITED TO 8K, NO MORE TO 64K!
>
>Heh...welcome to the world of anyone who programs for the 83Plus...
>What I personally am hoping for, as a resolution to our problems, is the
the
>creation of something (which would have to come from someone in "our"
>community) to convert apps to the format needed for the calculator to run
on.
> With the 83Plus SDK, you can create Apps and run them on the emulator
>provided by TI, but there is no way to send them to your calculator,
because
>they are in a different format.  83Plus asm programs are also now required
to
>be less than 8K as well...and I don't really understand the actual logic
for
>this (other than that greed factor we have talked about already...) because
>there is no hardware/rom issue I know of that would force them to be
>restricted.

1.) z80 opcodes are mostly only one or two bytes.  68k opcodes are mostly
2-4 WORDS.  You'll fill up 8k on an 89 much faster

2.) ION allows up to 16k if you use interrupts right

    -Scott