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Bug with new Venus version

Posted: Sun 03 Apr, 2005 5:40 pm
by kv83
Hey tr1p,

I was testing PindurTI, when I ran into a bug which propably is a cause of the new version of Venus. I did the following:

The ram is cleared.
I copied the venus.83g to PindurTI.
I run prgm -> A. (Don't know why though)
(Note that I don't delete anything)
I copied desolate.83p to PindurTI.
I run desolate.83p. It starts as it should. The old version of Venus took more space, and so you would got an memory error. But the new version is smaller.
Everything works. But after you start the game, and get to the last screen of text it hangs up.

I guess it's something related to the memory issue. :) Hope you can fix it.

(I didn't had time to see if it is the same on real calc, but I guess PindurTI works in this state almost as good as a normal TI-83)

Posted: Thu 07 Apr, 2005 9:46 am
by kv83
*bump* you already looked into it? :|

Posted: Thu 07 Apr, 2005 1:39 pm
by tr1p1ea
I am unable to test on a real calc either :(.

tested....

Posted: Thu 07 Apr, 2005 5:28 pm
by blueskies
This seems to be a problems with only PindurTI. I checked on my 83 with venus 2.4 and the version of Desolate I have (readme dated 14/08/2004) and it works just fine. Even when run from prgmA it works.

Posted: Thu 07 Apr, 2005 7:58 pm
by CoBB
I don't understand the problem. Where does it hang? I can get into the game no matter how I do it (prgmA or program menu, whatever interrupt speed).

Posted: Thu 07 Apr, 2005 8:04 pm
by kv83
It does hang after you start the game and get to the text. It won't go any further after the last text box.

Posted: Thu 07 Apr, 2005 8:14 pm
by CoBB
Which one do you mean? What does it say? Did you try to press ESC?

Posted: Fri 08 Apr, 2005 12:15 am
by Madskillz
your talking about the intro text correct? On the last of the intro text it freezes?

offtopic: Kv...nice avatar, I thought it said kv83 too!

Posted: Fri 06 May, 2005 2:07 pm
by tr1p1ea
I have test Desolate in PinurTI and it seems to work fine. You do realise that you have to press Mode (which is ESC i think) to close the intro text?

Posted: Fri 06 May, 2005 5:16 pm
by CoBB
Actually, there is a problem, but it isn't exclusive to PTI. Desolate crashes nastily on ROM 1.10 when you want to start a game from the menu.

Posted: Fri 06 May, 2005 5:20 pm
by tr1p1ea
... Interesting, i have never had anyone report this before. I will have to check it out.

*dusts off Desolate code*

Posted: Fri 06 May, 2005 5:24 pm
by DJ_O
I guess the ROM 1.10 is the newer TI-83s (2000)?

Posted: Fri 06 May, 2005 9:25 pm
by lloydkirk1989
Hmm...i didn't have that problem with 1.10. Desolate did crash when I ran it in VTI with rom 1.08.

Posted: Sat 07 May, 2005 10:40 am
by tr1p1ea
Was this the final version? I will have to look over the code ... strange that noone has ever reported this until now. Are these rom version rare?

Posted: Sat 07 May, 2005 3:28 pm
by lloydkirk1989
Yes, 1.10 was the final version for the 83.
Are these rom version rare?
Umm...yes. 83 roms are increasingly hard to come by.