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- From: doug.cotton@the-spa.com (Doug Cotton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: C64 disk accelerator options?
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 12:08:50 -0500
- Organization: Creative Micro Designs, Inc.
- Message-ID: <doug.cotton-2802961208500001@s111.the-spa.com>
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- In article <4gsalg$3c4@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca>, markus@pinetree.org wrote:
-
- > And then there's the mysterious JiffyDOS. I looked at CMD's web site,
- > and it said nothing useful about it. How compatible is this? What
- > does it speed up? And what does it break? I've lurked on this
- > newsgroup and read about temporary storage it grabs at address $9xxx...
- > that would break almost any serious C64 software!
-
- Please note that this is NOT something that breaks software. JiffyDOS only
- allocates such variables when a JiffyDOS command is executed -- which
- means
- it really only comes into play after you have loaded an ML module that
- didn't set the top of memory down to protect itself, then executed a
- JiffyDOS command by entering one on the keyboard. The same effect, btw,
- would occur if you loaded such a module and simply entered A$="HELLO" on
- the keyboard in direct mode.
-
- With most programs, you load them and run them immediately, and this never
- comes into play. JiffyDOS has, after all, survived as long as it has
- because of its high level of compatibility.
-
- Also, I'm working now on getting the JiffyDOS info onto our web site, so
- you may want to check back in a week or two.
-
-
- Doug Cotton
- E-mail: doug.cotton@the-spa.com
-
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