A89: Re: interrupts


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A89: Re: interrupts




Interrupts as I understand them are a part of hardware that executes a
location in memory when a certain thing happens.  There is a wealth of
information about interrupts on TI-89 Central http://ti89.acz.org/ that
explains interrupts.  I think that it even has information about interrupts
in the greyscale section.

One of the interrupts that occurs very often is used to switch between two
locations in memory.... blah blah blah... and you know the rest of how
greyscale works using interrupts...

-Miles Raymond

P.S. Can someone send me my old sig?  I somehow lost it...

-----Original Message-----
From: S43R80@aol.com <S43R80@aol.com>
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 10:15 AM
Subject: A89: interrupts


>Can someone give a brief overview of interrupts...I am under the impression
>that it is mostly used to keep track of time...If I have two sprites that I
>want to move back and forth at varying speeds and varying random lengths of
>time would I then use two interrupt routines (1 for each sprite)???  Also
are
>interrupt routines basically used to increment a number a certain number of
>times and then is reset and continued to be incremented???  I have very
little
>experience with interrupts.  Oh and how would I "install" an interrupt that
>increments a number anyway???  Could someone give me a quick example...
>     -Thanks-