Re: [NTLK] What is NASM 2.1 for

From: Sonny Hung <sonnyhung_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu Aug 31 2006 - 21:18:06 EDT

On 8/31/06, Frank Gruendel <newtontalk@pda-soft.de> wrote:
> > Does this package do anything when Tapped?
> > Or is it just sitting there and nothing happens when Tapped?
>
> I have it on two Newtons. On one it reports an error, on the other
> one the Newton resets after 1-2 seconds after tapping it.

Well that's great.
I'm wondering (Out Loud of course) whom did you get these from or who
originally owned them???

If they were the persons who had installed these packages then we
might possibly ask them, but I know you are fairly through on all
matters and probably got a dead end there :(

> > Have you extracted it out of theMP130 back to a desktop computer?
>
> No. Even if this was possible, which I'm not sure of, what would
> be the benefit?

Well the only benefit for now is that we would have a copy of it off
the Newton which we could install back on at a later time - Of course
you could always do this by making a backup on Flash Card. Not the
same as sending it back to the desktop but also works.

The other future benefit would be that IF we ever get a clue to what
it's use is then we woudl have a something to fall back on as a copy.

If the file name were directly related to the finding on the internet
I would venture to say it could be a way to transport assembler code
on to the Newton for programming and then transfer it back to a
desktop (probably a Linux machine) but of course I'm totally jumping
of a cliff with this theory...

By the way, is there anything else associated with it such as a Storage file?

To bad there are no tools to decode packages like DeBlitz which were
used with Commodore 64 to reverse compiled basic programs (compiled
with Blitz)
I think that's the name of the program - I could be wrong since it's
bee years since I used a C64.

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Sonny Hung
the Hung Family
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