If ports 29-2C are told to delay with LCD commands, will the calculator continue running code during the delay, or will it halt until the byte of data has been sent to the LCD successfully?

The ASM forum on Omnimaga is where people can turn to when they are stumped with an ASM project.  Recently I've seen several questions where someone replies "Rip the code off of Axe."  We, the staff at Omnimaga, understand that such a person is trying to be helpful, but for the future, we would like to ask you to refrain from posting "Axe-cheating" as an answer to someone's ASM question.

The biggest reason for this is to continue encouraging people to ask for help.  ASM is a hard language, and we want people to know that we are only too happy to answer their questions if they're stuck.  If we simply suggest that they create an Axe program and decompile the result, we are, even if accidentally, telling them "You can take care of yourself, so get your own source code and keep trying to figure it out."  Like I said, we don't mean it that way, but it will eventually come across that way.

That should be reason enough, but here are more reasons:

1. Decompilation from Axe is not necessarily an easy process
2. Often one will learn more from getting actual help or from receving freely-given source code.  I found this true with several of my projects.
3. "Decompile Axe" is doomed to be overused as a response.  This will just be an annoyance.
4. People passionate about ASM games will work to optimize as much as possible.  While Axe is fast, it's not necessarily optimized.

I haven't seen a lot of Star Trek: Voyager episodes, but I know of at least one episode (Scorpion, and there might be more) where Janeway and Chakotay get into an argument about a decision to make.  Both of them have different opinions about a course of action, and both have very good reasons for their beliefs.  In the end, though, it seems like Janeway has an attitude of "I'm the captain, so I'm always right.  Since you are a dear, dear friend of mine, I want you to agree with me unconditionally.  We're doing this my way."  Of course that's not her attitude, but I sometimes thought that she didn't value Chakotay's advice.

Anyways, is there an episode where they have such a conflict and after a while Janeway realises that Chakotay is the wiser one in that particular instance?  Similar to Star Trek: First Contact when Captain Picard had a fight with Lily and then discovered how right she truly was that he should self-destruct the Enterprise

As we all know, Windows programs are compiled into Intel/AMD opcodes.  I'm assuming that the program run from a specific RAM address, does anyone know which one?  Or perhaps all calls, jumps and returns are relative?

I've been starting a port of Commando, a game which uses the Motorola 6502 processor.  (By the way, Ti-83+ ASM is NOTHING compared to programming for the Atari 7800...I'm glad I'm only making a port!!)  Both the Motorola 6502 processor and the Z80 processor came not far from each other, and both were used for video game systems.

Each processor has its advantages and disadvantages.  While I prefer the Z80, there are some things about the Motorola 6502 that I wish the z80 had.

First, here's some things the Z80 has that the 6502 doesn't have, making the Z80 a dang fine processor indeed

The Z80 processor has more registers--many more
The Z80 has instructions that can compare and copy many values at once  (Like LDIR and CPIR)
The Z80's stack is much more flexible than the 6502's stack
You can work with 2-byte values on the z80, but not on the 6502
The 6502 has no register that can hold a direct address to work with  (The Z80 has HL, plus to a certain point DE, BC and SP)
The 6502 requires the carry flag for all math.  On the z80, it's optional.
On the 6502, you can only use conditions with a relative jump.  You can use conditions with calls, returns and longer jumps on the Z80
You can compare any register with register A.  On the 6502, registers cannot be compared with each other

And now, stuff the 6502 does that I wish the Z80 did:

Indexing is much easier and flexible on the 6502.  For instance, you can use a register to store an offset.
You can save one byte and several T-States on the 6502 by storing and retriving values from $0000 to $00FF.  This is not possible on the z80
On the 6520, you can use CP with almost all 1-byte registers
You can use almost all 1-byte registers to store directly to an address, as well as retrieve a value from it
One can increase or decrease the value in a direct address on the 6502

I'm fishing for 2 ships for a simpler game I MIGHT be working on.  I would prefer people who are familiar with the Ptaloid and Tosonian ships from S.A.D.:

http://ourl.ca/6284
http://ourl.ca/6282

Anyways, I'm looking for a Ptaloid version of the Reclauda and a Tosonian version of the Argo.  (I don't mean copy their sprites.  I mean the former should be anti-air, the other is anti-everything)  Just one sprite for each.  Sprites should be at most 15 x 15, at least 9 x 9.

Even if I don't choose the ships you submit, I will give you +1 respect for your submission, unless I can tell you are spamming just to win points.

S.A.D. Source Code

I apologize that this code isn't commented as much as I had hoped.  My available time has been cut much shorter.

http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=686