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Article #24925answering some questions
From: INFTVT1
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1987 23:12
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1987 23:12
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Hi guys,
I recently a lot of questions i know the answer of, so here they are:
1) Changing the seekrate of the floppy disc drives on a legal way:
It's quite simple once you know:
$440 word contains the seekrate this way:
0 -> 6 ms
1 -> 12 ms
2 -> 2 ms
3 -> 3 ms
2) turn of the verify on writing:
make $444 (word) zero.
3) Adresses of 1) and 2) are garuanteed not to change when other re-
leases of GEMDOS, XBIOS or BIOS come out. So one can use it! The
adresses must be changed in Supervisormode!
4) How to get Pexec to work:
long Pexec(mode, ptr1, ptr2, ptr3)
int mode;
char *ptr1, *ptr2, *ptr;
mode function description
0 load and go ptr1 = pathname to the program you want
to run.
ptr2 = Command tail (like the dialogbox
when you invoke a .ttp file from
the desktop).
ptr3 = Environmentstring (only included
for compatability with MS-DOS).
3 just load same pointers as above, you get the
address of the basepage back.
4 just go ptr1 = address of basepage.
5 make a basepage and allocate free memory.
Not everything you can expect is included
however.
5) The standard formatter makes an interleave of 0:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. It's quite easy to make your your own formatter:
With help of the functions Protobt and Flopfmt you can do a lot!
(if you don't know how just send me a message and i'll explain).
6) Atari uses a modified Wd 1772 controller from Western Digital. The
modification lies in the steprates. (And also there's some malfunction
in de read track command: for those of you who want to write a copier
which copies all protected software: it can be done! :-) ).
7) I sent a message a while ago containing some stuff on MS-Write. (that's
the name). I don't think it was a demo: Everything seems to work
(according to my friend).
Sietze Roorda
BITNET: INFTVT1@HENTHT5.
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