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From: ewb6720@pacs.UUCP ( Eric W. Bray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: Anybody have info on ...
Summary: QUESTIONS
	 ANSWERS
Message-ID: <416@pacs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 91 19:59:17 GMT
References: <91160.093541U16028@uicvm.uic.edu>
Organization: Philadelphia Area Computer Society
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In article <91160.093541U16028@uicvm.uic.edu>, U16028@uicvm.uic.edu writes:

> I have two questions to which I hope someone has the answers, and will
> share them with me.
> 
> Q1)  What ever became of the "99/4A National Assistance Group". The group
>      was active, at least, in 1985.  It was headquartered in
>      Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
> 
> Q2)  In one of their newsletters, it was printed that entering
>      CALL INIT
>      CALL LOAD(-31878,0)
>      from Extended Basic would increase the speed of BASIC execution.
>      (This code, supposedly, disabled "something".)
>      Can anyone confirm that this really worked?

> 
> Thanks, in advance.
> Terry

        
ANSWERS

Q1) That organization is now no longer in existance!
   
Q2) That code is suppose to disable the machine's scanning for sprite data
    and attributes from the VDP memory. Thus if you had a XBASIC program that
    didn't need sprites you could add that statement and speed up the program
    a little bit.