Re: Reading from the memory card.

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

Bob and all,

The problem is not how to link to it, the problem is to get someone to take 
on the job of writing assembly code to transfer the contents of the Memory 
card to disk.  Chris has already done a lot of the work.  One just needs to 
put together the pieces.

The SHELL process works just fine for this task.  It is a lot easier (for 
me) to shell out to a program than to call a library program.  Most of the 
time I want to be running in the QBasic environment.  I have built a large 
QBasic program in the past - much too large to fit in the environment - it 
was a pain since one constantly had to recompile and link.  Of course this 
was on a much slower machine.  It took about an hour.

Tom Droege

At 03:40 PM 1/31/01 -0800, you wrote:
>What you really need to read the data fast from the data card is not a shell
>program (that method takes a while to just start the procedure) but rather
>do a library call to read the data into your array.  The assembly of a
>library isn't that hard to do for QB and the code is usually written in
>assembly language.  The only problem with this approach is that anybody
>compiling the full program needs to have that library.
>Bob May
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>Bob May