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- This is a little program I have written some months ago, it is a hack to
- gemdos to speed up the search for free clusters on hard disk partitions.
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- I have menitioned this patch in this newsgroup some weeks ago and many people
- were interested in getting a copy. But the old version of FATSPEED failed
- installation when the early US roms are used. Now I have rewritten the
- installation procedure to make it more rom independent. It now installs
- correctly in all rom versions I know of ( 85/11/20, 86/2/6, 87/4/22 ).
- It is tested with the 86/2/6 and 87/4/22 roms. It *should* work with the
- other versions, too.
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- FATSPEED does not contain any code from Atari's roms, all needed stuff is
- copied out of your roms and modified. Of course there may be programs which
- break with this sort of gemdos modification. It is intended as a temporary
- fix to the gemdos bug of slow fat searching, and works for my purpose.
- If it also does for yours, you're welcome. When Atari's new roms will be out,
- there will be no more need for FATSPEED ( unless, my routine is faster than
- Atari's :-)
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- The source is available upon request, but it is not very well documented and
- may be compiler dependent. And it does only contain the replacement procedures
- and the installation code with some rom address offsets. No description of
- rom code. And I am not willing to write a real documentation for it.
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- Enjoy !
- - Uli -
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- Uli Kuebler
- University of Kaiserslautern
- West-Germany
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