Hobbies/ where are your calcs?

[Snektron]

I don't think axe has malloc build in o.o.. Also maybe i should just drop an error. anyway i will do pc first

[DarkestEx]

I don't think axe has malloc build in o.o.. Also maybe i should just drop an error. anyway i will do pc first

No it has!
I already used it!

[Snektron]

what are the commands then?

[DarkestEx]

Just Buffer(size) > A
and A then contains your pointer to the allocated space in ram

[TheMachine02]

Not exactly. This command isn't a malloc, it just create a free space inside program space. For app, it is only read-only since it is in ROM.
The real axe malloc is more this :

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GetCalc("tmpMALLOC",size)->A


creating a temporary variable inside RAM, and deleting at exit automatically 

[Snektron]

Just Buffer(size) > A
and A then contains your pointer to the allocated space in ram

Also this doesn't have realloc and i'm going to rely pretty heavy on it :3

Not exactly. This command isn't a malloc, it just create a free space inside program space. For app, it is only read-only since it is in ROM.
The real axe malloc is more this :

Code Select Expand


GetCalc("tmpMALLOC",size)->A


creating a temporary variable inside RAM, and deleting at exit automatically 

That would probably really slow since it uses TI routines

[DarkestEx]

Well, Cumred, why don't you build it for KnightOS then?

[Snektron]

KCC is based on SDCC, and thus it still packs the heap with the program. I could maybe make a malloc/callc/realloc/free axiom though (i might do this anyway), but i'll probably still end up using it for a z80 program. But that's okay. Also z80 is a little bit more attractive for this since i can spread my project over multiple files and still develop op PC

[Strontium]

Who needs hobbies when you have friends, right guys!?
which is why I have hobbies

My only calculator, a TI Nspire CX, stays in my backpack most of the time. If I go anywhere, though, I bring it with me and stick it in my pocket.

[Ivoah]

My hobbies are biking, frisbee, frisbee while biking, programming, electronics, linux, calcs (duh), and KSP.
My Nspire CX CAS and one of my TI-84+ SE's stay in my pockets all the time, the rest stay on the floor/on my desk in my room.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Let it out before it lays eggs

Maybe they can overlcok it too while they're at it. That makes me think, someone in my class had a game on his calc that enabled test mode (where the screen turns blue). It was quite scary actually since they didn't know it's a bad thing. I blame the maker though

It might have been an old Ion game that only ran on OS 1.12 or lower. I noticed that those games sometimes break in newer versions.


Also, 2006 BASIC games that used xLIB sometimes used special effects called bluescale, which involved toggling test mode rapidly, which resulted into a less damaging, but still not very safe blue screen if the effect ran for a long while. It only worked on the 15 MHz models, because on those, making contrast go from higher values to very low, nearly invisible values instantly instead of gradually caused the screen to turn blue for a split second. The same thing happened in MirageOS when turning the calc OFF.

Well, Cumred, why don't you build it for KnightOS then?

I personally recommend against making a TI-83+/84+ program KOS-only, though. It's best to make it cross-compatible with the TI-OS too, because very few people will be able to use it.

[Strontium]

We need a walrus equivalent of Unidan.

[Tom_the_walrus]

As a student, my calculators stay mainly in my bag but as it is now holidays I'm gonna be playing and/or coding with my Prime.
Apart for gaming and coding, I like to play badminton.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

cool to hear you plan to do some HP Prime dev soon. I need to get back into it at one point.

Do you have hardware A or C?

[Unicorn]

Oh, and hobbies. I play soccer, like to watch and play hockey, and like to take computers apart.