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Article #1565

Re: Question on Cartridge

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From: Richard R. Sharpe
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1986 15:24
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I had great problems developing applications for use with the 
cartridge port.  Everything seemed to give me bombs right away.  
I finally got a directory up when I built a cart with just names 
and "rts"s.  I called R Frick's number at atari.  I got passed 
around for a while but eventually got to someone that appeared to 
know what was happening (unfortunately, I forget his name).

He said that application-type cartridges have never worked under any
rev of TOS!!!  This kinda shook me up and I questioned him further but
he wouldn't change his story.  There is some way around the problem,
that involved booting without disks attached or something but I wasn't
able to figure it out.

Has *anyone* been able to get an application cartridge running ?

Rick Sharpe at Rosemount Inc, Burnsville MN 
(612)-885-2017          ihnp4!quest!rose3!rick
(612)-423-9096          ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!rosevax!rose3!rick

PS. Landon, Claudia says HI!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!caip!meccts!dicome!rosevax!rose3!rick
References: <4392@pur-ee.UUCP> <411@atari.UUcp>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!caip!meccts!dicome!rosevax!rose3!rick
From: rick@rose3.UUCP (Richard R. Sharpe)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Question on Cartridge
Message-ID: <190@rose3.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 11:24:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: rose3.190
Posted: Tue Aug 19 11:24:02 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Aug-86 02:33:22 EDT
References: <4392@pur-ee.UUCP> <411@atari.UUcp>
Reply-To: rick@rose3.UUCP (Richard R. Sharpe)
Organization: Rosemount Inc., Minneapolis, MN
Lines: 22
Keywords: Cartridge port, PROMS
Summary: Bad news ?