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Please feel free to use this forum for any questions, feedback or discussion concerning the tutorials on "Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner".  I welcome all forms of feedback.

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2010, 11:34:22 pm »
This is not specifically for the tutorial itself, but since it is calc programming related, would you like a sub-forum for this project?

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2010, 11:43:46 pm »
That would be nice!  Thanks a lot!  If you could put both the discussion section and the lessons section in the same sub forum, that would be a great aid.

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2010, 12:06:02 am »
Ok there we go. Moving all topics in the brand new sub-forum now

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2010, 02:25:57 pm »
I noticed few people downloaded the second tutorial.  There may be good reason, but I wanted to make sure everyone knew it's up, in the main topic.

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2010, 03:21:41 pm »
oh i didnt have much time to read it yet, since I'm always at work or busy on other stuff x.x

Downloaded now for later

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2010, 10:34:56 am »
i wasn't on my home computer (that has the printer) last two days, so I wasn't able to download it. probably I'll do it today


Spoiler For funny life mathematics:
1. ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
2. OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
3. SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.
4. GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
5. HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
6. LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
7. PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
8. DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Girls = Time * Money (Girls are a combination of time and money)
Time = Money (Time is money)
Girls = Money squared (So, girls are money squared)
Money = sqrt(Evil) (Money is also the root of all evil)
Girls = sqrt(Evil) squared (So, girls are the root of all evil squared)
Girls = Evil (Thus, girls are evil)
*Girls=Evil credit goes to Compynerd255*

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2010, 06:40:41 pm »
could you make text/document versions as well as the pdfs by any chance? :{O

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2010, 07:13:00 pm »
could you make text/document versions as well as the pdfs by any chance? :{O

Not text, but I'll certainly do document versions

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2010, 07:18:02 pm »
the issue with doc, tho, is the lower compatibility than PDFs. Text would be nice for people who don't have enough admin priviledges to install a doc/pdf reader on school computers that has no USB port tun run portable softwares from. Else, an alternative would be online version of the tutorials in HTML format.

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2010, 09:01:50 pm »
Ah, HTML.  I forgot I could put those up here.

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2010, 10:04:52 pm »
I just finished reading the second lesson. That I was able to understand perfectly!! It was a great tutorial. With learn asm in 28 days I was like, what's register? Now I understand how it works. What I especially like about your tutorial is that it's really fun to read it. Adding those cartoons sure make me laugh :) great job and keep up the good work


Spoiler For funny life mathematics:
1. ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
2. OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
3. SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.
4. GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
5. HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
6. LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
7. PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
8. DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Girls = Time * Money (Girls are a combination of time and money)
Time = Money (Time is money)
Girls = Money squared (So, girls are money squared)
Money = sqrt(Evil) (Money is also the root of all evil)
Girls = sqrt(Evil) squared (So, girls are the root of all evil squared)
Girls = Evil (Thus, girls are evil)
*Girls=Evil credit goes to Compynerd255*

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2010, 10:19:19 pm »
I just finished reading the second lesson. That I was able to understand perfectly!! It was a great tutorial. With learn asm in 28 days I was like, what's register? Now I understand how it works. What I especially like about your tutorial is that it's really fun to read it. Adding those cartoons sure make me laugh :) great job and keep up the good work

Thanks for saying something, jsj!  That's the one tutorial I was worried about, so I'm now at 100% confidence for the rest of the tutorials.  You definitely deserve a +1 for making my day

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2010, 10:36:37 pm »
Lol thanks for the +1 and yeah i hope to see more lessons and who knowz i might be able to be more like calc84 one day :D I especially liked the RAM and CPU and register diagram


Spoiler For funny life mathematics:
1. ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
2. OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
3. SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.
4. GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
5. HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
6. LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
7. PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
8. DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Girls = Time * Money (Girls are a combination of time and money)
Time = Money (Time is money)
Girls = Money squared (So, girls are money squared)
Money = sqrt(Evil) (Money is also the root of all evil)
Girls = sqrt(Evil) squared (So, girls are the root of all evil squared)
Girls = Evil (Thus, girls are evil)
*Girls=Evil credit goes to Compynerd255*

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Re: Hot Dog's TI-83+ Z80 ASM for the Absolute Beginner--Discussion
« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2010, 12:28:05 am »
Lol I just took a quick look at Lesson 3, and I wonder if for early BASIC programmers, Axe Parser couldn't act as some sort of bridge towards ASM? Some of the pointer stuff seems pretty similar to Axe. Of course, in lower level but still pointers/memory addresses

It seemed pretty well explained btw. It might be good to specify how much RAM exactly in total the 83+ has, though.