Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!eastapps!juggler!gaudreau From: gaudreau@juggler.East.Sun.COM (Joe Gaudreau (Spaced for Rent)) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: the TRS-80 destroyer Message-ID: <4592@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> Date: 1 Mar 91 18:31:47 GMT References: <1991Feb24.080042.13482@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@East.Sun.COM Reply-To: gaudreau@east.sun.com (Joe Gaudreau (Spaced for Rent)) Distribution: alt Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. - BDC Lines: 36 Approved: me@there.com toad@CS.CMU.EDU (Todd Kaufmann) writes: =Try this minimal five char sequence on a model-1 trash-80 =(if i remember correctly--maybe the two lines are switched): ='' = =REMember, the apostrophe is an abbrev for REMark. =Hangs it, if not reset; maybe starts writing the stack into video RAM. =It's back home in Illinois, so I can't test it now. My Mom was still using =it until this summer, running a payroll program that I wrote 10 years ago. I think that's: '' but it's been a while (still in the closet). =Certainly my longest existing, used program. When I had a plotter hooked =up to it, I had a BASIC program which would print out the records, using a =vector font I designed. Took about 30mins/page, but gotta keep these =machines busy. An idle cycle is the devil's workstation, or whatever it is =they say. When I was in high-school, I noticed these programs that would let you use funky bitmapped fonts for your MX-80 and really wanted to be able to do that but the price! $150 for a stupid program? No way man. Crafted one up via Z-80 and it worked rather nicely (wasn't great code but...). The best part was that "80-Micro" published the article *and* payed me for it. Kinda neato, you know? ObHack: I'm working on a Trs-80 Model I Level II `simulator.' I use that term, rather than emulator 'cause I'm going to copy my ROM rather than emulate it (in the proper clean room fashion). Hope RS doesn't mind (for my personal use only, of course). Joe -=-