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- The following is the
- text of a SIG message
- that I left some months
- ago. The information
- about the naming of the
- file I now consider
- questionable, so I have
- enclosed it w/ square
- brackets. The example
- program works as
- intended...It hangs up
- the disk drive in an
- endless loop.
-
- Ive been expirimenting w/ the &
- command in the 1541 DOS with these
- results:
- (corrections welcomed!)
- The "&" Cmd. may be used to execute
- ML code in Disk ram from a file
- stored on disk. It will autostart on
- powerup in some drives, under certain
- circumstances.
- In my oldest 1541 the full code as
- shown in Abacus Disk book is present
- at disk Rom addr.s $e780-e852. The
- ROM in my SX however, eliminates the
- autostart portion between $e780 and
- $e7a2. The & CMD part is still there,
- it just wont autostart. The file to
- be executed is specially structured.
- *[It may be either a PRG or USR
- file, (at least). The file must have
- "&" as the first character of its
- name.]* The first two bytes of the
- file are the the disk ram addr. where
- the file is to execute. The L