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ASM for the TI-86

Posted by Linux_Penguin [send private reply] at October 07, 2001, 03:35:20 PM

I recently decided to try ASM for the 86. Looking all over the internet however I only found tons of sites with dead links and old info. So firstly is it a good idea to learn it and secondly is there any page from whence I can learn it?

Posted by Psion [send private reply] at October 08, 2001, 08:36:51 PM

Your one stop shop is http://www.ticalc.org/

A lovely Z80 assembly introduction geared toward the TI-85 w/ USGard is at http://www.acc.umu.se/~yarin/usgard.html

Posted by sphinX [send private reply] at October 09, 2001, 02:43:20 AM

as for whether or not it's a good idea to learn assembly, i'd say yes, simply based on my own experience. i'm a very logical person, and i find assembly *fun*, as it's incredibly logical. whether or not it's a good idea in terms of usefullness, probably not, as modern day compilers are relatively good at optimisations and high-level languages are a lot easier. however, i still believe that assembly is good for hand optimisation of particularly resource-hungry rendering code or just complex loops performing mathematical equations.

Posted by Psion [send private reply] at October 09, 2001, 06:44:58 AM

sphinX, pretty much all code for TI-8x calculators is written in assembly. Resources are pretty tight, and general interest in making "professional" dev tools for them is low.

Posted by sphinX [send private reply] at October 10, 2001, 06:32:32 AM

yeah...i failed to notice the subject of this thread...the "for the TI-86" but eluded me ... i assume 86 meant x86 in linux_penguin's post ;-))

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