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- ╦EYWORD: ┴╒╘╧┼╪┼├
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- ╙EE ┴LSO: ┬┴╘├╚, ╙╚┼╠╠
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- ╫HEN YOU PERFORM ANY DISK OPERATION, SUCH AS ╠╧┴─ING THE ├╙-─╧╙ SHELL INTO
- ╥┴═, THE ├128 ╦┼╥╬┴╠ ╥╧═ STORES THE DEVICE NUMBER THAT THE DISK OPERATION
- REFERED TO IN THE ZERO PAGE AT LOCATION 186 ($BA). ╫HEN YOU BOOT ├╙-─╧╙, IT
- ASSUMES THAT THE AUTOEXEC FILE IS ON THE SAME DRIVE THAT YOU LOADED THE SHELL
- FROM. ╘HUS, IT TAKES A LOOK AT LOCATION 186 AND SETS THE DEFAULT DRIVE TO
- DRIVE 0 ON THAT UNIT. ╔T THEN ASSIGNS THE ALIAS Z: TO WHATEVER DRIVE THAT
- HAPPENS TO BE AND ┼╪┼├S Z:AUTOEXEC. ╘HIS ENABLES YOU TO BOOT THE SYSTEM FROM
- ANY DRIVE.
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- ╘HIS IS ALSO YOUR CHANCE TO CUSTOMIZE THINGS A LITTLE. ╘HERE ARE A COUPLE
- OF THINGS WHICH YOU MUST DO, AND A NUMBER OF THINGS WHICH YOU MAY OR MAY NOT
- CHOOSE TO DO.
-
- ╞IRST THE NESSESSARY STUFF.
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- 1) ╘ELL ├╙┴╥├1750 AND ╠╚┴ WHAT PART OF THE 1750 THEY CAN USE. ─O THIS WITH
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- POKE DEC("1BCF"),LOW*16+HIGH
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- WHERE LOW IS THE LOWEST NUMBERED 1750 BANK THAT THESE PROGRAMS ARE
- ALLOWED TO USE AS A BUFFER, AND HIGH IS THE HIGHEST BANK PLUS ONE.
- ╞OR EXAMPLE,
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- POKE DEC("1BCF"),0*16+1
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- ┴LLOWS THEM TO USE ONLY BANK 0 IN THE 1750.
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- 2) ╙IMILARLY, SPECIFY WHAT PART OF THE 1750 THAT ╘┼╥═ IS ALLOWED TO USE
- AS A CAPTURE BUFFER. ╘HIS NEED NOT BE DIFFERENT FROM THE ABOVE. ─O THIS
- WITH
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- POKE DEC("1BD0"),LOW*16+HIGH
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- ╘HATS ALL THAT YOU MUST DO.
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- ╧THER THINGS YOU'LL WANT TO DO ARE ...
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- 1) ╒SE Z:SETRAM TO ALLOCATE A ╥┴═ DISK
- 2) ╒SE Z:GETRAM TO LOAD IN A PREVIOUSLY PREPARED ╥┴═ DISK
- 3) ╙ELECT ╘┼╪╘ OR ┬┴╙╔├ MODE
- 4) ╒SE ┴╙╙╔╟╬ TO ASSIGN MEANINGFUL UNIT,DRIVES TO THE DRIVE LETTERS.
- 5) ╨OKE SOME NUMBERS INTO THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
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- DEC("1BC0") - ─EFAULT ┬┴╒─ RATE FOR ╘┼╥═, LOW BYTE (1200 BAUD)
- DEC("1BC1") - ─EFAULT ┬┴╒─ RATE FOR ╘┼╥═, HIGH BYTE
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- ╘HESE COLORS ARE USED BY SOME COMMANDS LIKE ─╔╥ AND ╥─╔╥
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- DEC("1BC8") - ├OLOR NUMBER ONE (DEFAULT WHITE)
- DEC("1BC9") - ├OLOR NUMBER TWO (DEFAULT YELLOW)
- DEC("1BCA") - ├OLOR NUMBER THREE (DEFAULT GREEN)
- DEC("1BCB") - ├OLOR NUMBER FOUR (DEFAULT CYAN)
- DEC("1BCC") - ├OLOR NUMBER FIVE (DEFAULT BROWN)
- DEC("1BCD") - ├OLOR NUMBER SIX (DEFAULT PURPLE)
- DEC("1BCE") - ├OLOR NUMBER SEVEN (DEFAULT YELLOW)
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- DEC("1BD2") - ─EFAULT ECHO STATUS. 0=ON, $80=OFF (DEFAULT 0)
- DEC("1BEE") - ╨RINTER DEVICE NUMBER (DEFAULT 4)
- DEC("1BEF") - ╨RINTER SECONDARY ADDRESS+96 (DEFAULT 96)
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- 5) ═AKE ASSIGNMENTS TO THE PROGRAMMABLE FUNCTION KEYS
- 6) ┼TCETERA.
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