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Re: How to know we are in TOS 1.0? -- thanks

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From: Colas Nahaboo
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 15:59
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First, thanks to everybody who pointed me to the good location:
	((int *) _sysbase) + 1

But I want to issue a warning to US ST programmers:

In article <1903@atari.UUCP>, apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
> romdate will have a number like 0x04061989 for April 6, 1989.

Do not rely on DATES! The french TOS version has the date of the translation
into french, not the US date, so relying on dates on your code will break
in other countries... (Twister did in fact, it checked the date of the
new US roms, which failed on french ones)

Thanks anyways for you reply, Alan.
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