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Article #35863Re: bios function 0x7f
From: Simon Poole
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1989 12:54
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1989 12:54
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[I know this is late, but the Swiss backbone always closes down over Christmas/New Year] In article <12210@hall.cray.com> rosenkra@hall.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) writes: >lighten up, allan... > >i was not advocating its use nor do i even plan to use it in my own stuff >i just wanted to know what was going on... > >i do, however, appreciate your frustration. i have just found out how >relying on undocumented stuff is bad. on my 1040 i used to use GEMBOOT >(i know, a BIG no-no). well, now with my mega4, gemboot does not work. You must have a really old version of GEMBOOT, newer versions (mine is surely nearly a year old) have a variable that you can set to the address of the internal free list, we've got various machines here with Mega Roms including a Mega ST 4 and they all have GEMBOOT installed. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: ...mcvax!cernvax!forty2!poole Simon Poole BITNET: K538915@CZHRZU1A ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: bios function 0x7f Message-ID: <580@forty2.UUCP> Date: 9 Jan 89 12:54:22 GMT References: <12076@hall.cray.com> <3767@druhi.ATT.COM> <1263@atari.UUCP> <12210@hall.cray.com> Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich Lines: 24