And to put it to rest:

bcall address:

• 0000h - 3FFFh -- Look at the currently running app
• 4000h - 7FFFh -- Look at page 1Bh/3Bh/7Bh
• 8000h - BFFFh -- Look at boot code

So depending whichever range the bcall falls into is where the OS will look. And the data is always stored the same: addrLow, addrHigh, page

No, I'll disable the specific hook you have changed. So instead of just changing the option, you are actually disabling the hook too.

If you don't touch any of the options, it will do exactly what it does now.

I have noticed some bugs.

Alplha on = screen off if you have opened mirage. thus killing the safe ram clear.
When you have log names on, then turn them off, they are still on.  I did a safe ram clear and it fixed it (I assume a normal one would work too.)

and how was that ninja's???

I know mirage does that, I just figure people can press [ON][CLEAR], [ALPHA], [ON][R] because I do not want to make the safe ram clear just [ON][ x ]. I could see people accidentally deleting something important with that because it's too easy to press.

You know what, I actually have a way to fix the fact that it doesn't disable stuff when you disable it. What I'll do is when you turn something off, I'll disable that hook. So that way if you were turning it off, it's off. But if you were turning it on, it will get enabled on quit.

That's some weird stuff. I doubt it's the OS causing you the problems, so I made a program to dump the extra ram page. Just run this program and post the EXPAGE.8xp it gives you.

Then, after you are sure you have the page saved, preferably on the computer. Try the clear option, this will clear the extra ram page, and the program will most likely crash on exit. But when the calc recovers, see if the problem is gone, if it is, the EXPAGE will tell us why.

For the program, make sure you have at least 16500 bytes free. Also, if it ever quits for no apparent reason, that means it had an error, with a little looking, you can probably figure out what the error was.


Edit:
    If it is the OS, we have some work. See if the self test passes the OS test. [MODE][ALPHA][ S ] and let the number 0 increment to 1.

To be honest, you won't start optimizing stuff until you know how many t-states and bytes each command is. And don't go memorize it because you need to learn it through experience. The optimizations really start to come when you start rearranging code and taking different approach to tasks. The little trick optimizations wont really save you much time except for in sections of code that get run like 10,000 times per second. Well optimized code is usually created, it's reformed from bad code.

So, what am I saying. Don't worry yourself over little optimizations, fix them if you find them, but mostly for learning purposes. It's with persistent attempts to write good code that you will in fact write good code.

Oh, and IX is slow

Sorry, about the checkmate thing. That was probably when I got rid of the that bad optimization I talked about, I must have messed that up because it used to work flawlessly. I'll get it fixed.

And the opening move database is definitely not happening. It is useless code with too many conditionals. What if the opponent responds in an unusual way? You have to make a new set, but what if they do another unusual move... This ends up with >1000 lines of code that will soon become obsolete.

Yes. It is basically resetting all the settings, ports, hooks, and ram on the calculator without deleting your programs.

Update:

• ON + VARS = archive all programs
• ON + R = safe ram clear
• ON + COS = Asm(
• ON + CLEAR = Restore zStart (used to be ENTER)

Axe support is hopefully on the way. I plan to install Axe's hooks and compile programs with ON + ENTER.
DCS support is also hopefully on the way. I should be able to install DCS's hooks and let it make it's appvars. Kerm's also working on the chain glitch.

Of course, both of those require entry points in the apps, so hopefully the author's will add them for me. :D

(The source is here mainly as a backup, but have fun looking at how I do file operations from hooks if you want)

Edit:
   Sorry, the last screeny sucked, this one is way better.