notwhoyouthink Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Does the TI have a killer poke... Or, killer call load, i suppose? I do not mean poking a value that causes a system crash or reset... I mean literally has the potential to damage hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Not that I've ever heard of. But honestly, even if I knew of such a thing, I'd never tell anyone out of fear of some malicious person embedding it in a trojan program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apersson850 Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 What you can do to destroy hardware is turn some of the programmable I/O points on the TMS 9901 PSI in the wrong direction. If you set an output against an output, you may fry the chip. But you can't do that with just a "poke". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Well, ultimately, there is a way: You can transfer control to any machine code by setting the interrupt hook 83C4. So you need several pokes, but yes, you can. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majestyx Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 In Chapter 2 of Teach Yourself Extended BASIC (PHD 5019) where it explains what CALL LOAD does, it gives this warning: CARELESS USE OF "CALL LOAD" MAY CAUSE SYSTEM FAILURE. USE "CALL LOAD" ONLY AS INSTRUCTED IN THE DOCUMEN- TATION FOR ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE SUBPROGRAMS. Found that to be quite interesting. Not sure if they meant it would lock up/crash the computer or actually frying the hardware. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Using RXB I turned on the Floppy DSR and using a CALL LOAD wrote over drive sector zero of a floppy disk. Not intended but it did take more then just a CALL LOAD to do so. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apersson850 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Not sure if they meant it would lock up/crash the computer or actually frying the hardware. They were referring to a lock up/crash only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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