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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
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- Developer Technical Support
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- SmartPort
- #6: Apple IIGS SmartPort Errata
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- Written by: Matt Deatherage November 1988
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- This Technical Note documents two bugs in the Apple IIGS SmartPort firmware.
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- Developers should be aware of the following two bugs in the Apple IIGS
- SmartPort firmware:
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- 1. SmartPort accidentally uses locations $57 through $5A on the zero
- page without saving and restoring them first. There is some
- confusion as to whether these bytes are used on the absolute zero
- page or on the caller's direct page. This is a moot point--
- SmartPort calls are required to be made from full-emulation
- mode. This requirement means the emulation bit must be set and
- the data bank and direct page registers must both be set to zero.
- The bytes are used on the absolute zero page, as that should be
- the direct page when SmartPort is called.
- 2. If an extended SmartPort CONTROL call is made, the CONTROL list
- must not start at $FFFE or $FFFF of any bank. The IIGS SmartPort
- interface does not increment the bank pointer when moving past the
- two-byte CONTROL list length. If a CONTROL list starts one or two
- bytes before a bank boundary, SmartPort will incorrectly read the
- list from the beginning of that bank, instead of the beginning of
- the next bank.
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- These bugs will be fixed in any future release of the Apple IIGS firmware.
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- Further Reference
- o Apple IIGS Firmware Reference
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