RE: A92: Cannot run Fargo 0.2.6 on my Calc
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RE: A92: Cannot run Fargo 0.2.6 on my Calc
Which ROM versions have you encountered?
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>From: David Ellsworth[SMTP:davidell@ix.netcom.com]
>Reply To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
>Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 7:23 AM
>To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: Re: A92: Cannot run Fargo 0.2.6 on my Calc
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>At 01:01 AM 4/1/98 +0100, Hugo Ferreira wrote:
>>Ok... I used the Ti-GRAPH LINK for Win Version 1.4 !
>>But, the question here is: In older versions of FARGO, when the old MEMORY
>>OVERFLOW technique was being used, I was able to install fargo. Latter, when
>>new versions camed out, I were only able to install it USING again the old
>>way. Since FARGO has been using the new way, I can't install it.
>>
>>But, there is another problem. DAVID said that the backup I received was
>>corrupted. But, strange enough, if I send the clean backup again to the
>>calc, it accepts it.
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>Actually, I posted three messages to this list in quick succession. My
>final conclusion was that you have a non-standard version of ROM 1.10, and
>that your backup was NOT corrupted.
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>Have you received the latest email I sent to you? I sent it about 12 hours
>ago.
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>The reason Fargo 0.1.x worked on your calc was that it used a lookup method
>designed to be ROM independent. I used lookups that worked on both ROM 1.2
>and 1.12, so they had a good chance of working on everything in between as
>well. However, this method was rather kludgy and not guaranteed to be ROM
>independent due to its nature.
>
>Fargo II uses a more traditional, but more reliable (and more efficient)
>lookup method: it simply has a table for each ROM version. However, this
>means that it cannot support ROM versions that I have not encountered.
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