| Author | Comment |
matt_cool14
Probe
Posted: 13 May 2006
18:11 GMT
Total Posts: 1 | Hey everyone, i'm new to this calculator stuff and programming so i wanted to just mess aroun d with phoenix z, you know reset some of the amounts of money you need to pay. So i used notepad like i was told and i saved it as PhoenixZ.8xp like the other and i tried to send it to my calc and it say incompatible file. so what do i do . plz help me lol |
Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 13 May 2006
20:25 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | You have to compile it if you want to send it to your calculator. And for that you need TASM, DevPac8x, and Zilog Developer Studio. I would suggest actually playing the game to get money if you want it that badly. |
threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 14 May 2006
11:34 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | Zilog Developer Studio? Tasm? Devpac8x? Useless, slow, and schizophrenic. Use Notepad, Spencer's Assembler, and Wabbitsign. They can be found on www.revsoft.org/phpBB2.
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Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 14 May 2006
15:22 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | Sure, sure. If you want to be a wimp and have a program do everything for you, go ahead. Real men use text editors and command-line prompts, though. :D |
threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 14 May 2006
16:31 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | Which is what they do. Your suggestion is wimpier by your own definition. My combination is smaller, faster, and uses way cooler command line stuff.
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Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 14 May 2006
21:51 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | IDE != command prompt. I mean typing in "tasm -i -b blah.z80" into DOS and watching as TASM spews out 1000 errors in your face. That's how you really do it. |
threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 15 May 2006
13:31 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | Program do everything for you? All it does is not shît itself whenever you create a z80 file that doesn't match it's exact ridiculous format.
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Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 15 May 2006
15:45 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | Yeah, exactly. That's how you learn to program well: by mkaing everything perfect and manually fixing every error thrown at you by the compiler. |
Hydralisk5201
Wraith
Posted: 16 May 2006
07:31 GMT
Total Posts: 576 | no matter how cool Lunchbox is
i definitely agree with 3fg.
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 16 May 2006
12:50 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | You have to manually fix the errors in Spasm too. You just don't need at least 2 linebreaks after the last end and other random things like that.
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calcul831415
Marine
Posted: 16 May 2006
13:49 GMT
Total Posts: 33 | Spencer's Assembler has bugs? |
Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 16 May 2006
14:39 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | @3fg: I'm not trying to say spencer's assembler is bad. I haven't even tried it, in fact, becuase i haven't programmed in assembly for so long, but my point is that I prefer to use command-line prompts and text editors because I think it gives you a good feel for how things work, and the perfection it demands from you is good training. That's not to say your code must always be the best, fastest, meanest, leanest code around, but it does help you from accidentally programming errors into your code, like so many people tend to do nowadays. It also gives you greater respect for the people who write low-level code to make things easier for your life. A trait, IMHO, that is very important when programming. And in life in general. |
threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 16 May 2006
19:14 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | You DO use a text editor and command line, Spencer's is a replacement for tasm. It still gives you all the benefits only faster and less psychotically.
The bugs I was referring to are bugs in the programming, it doesn't fix those for you. Spencer's assembler has no known bugs PLUS you can include a bitmap (black and white of course) using #include.
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Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 16 May 2006
21:39 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I get it. The way you were describing it it sounded like a full-on IDE. Damn , I feel like an idiot now. |
Hydralisk5201
Wraith
Posted: 17 May 2006
11:57 GMT
Total Posts: 576 | L, you are an idiot
jk jk
lol
*dont delete this post! haha it was a joke!*
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Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 17 May 2006
15:07 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | I would never. Unless, of course my finger just accidentally happened to slip. |
Hydralisk5201
Wraith
Posted: 17 May 2006
16:35 GMT
Total Posts: 576 | thats not funny...
actually it was lol
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