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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: system software idea
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.163413.47@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu>
- From: rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (Randy)
- Date: 17 Aug 92 16:34:13 CST
- References: <9208130436.aa12107@generic.UUCP> <1992Aug13.143119.43@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu>
- <17AUG199202353012@vax2.concordia.ca> <57022@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Wichita State University, Wichita, Ks
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- In article <57022@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ericm@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Mulholland) writes:
- > spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:
- >> Is there a program which lets you change that vaule in battery RAM? As I
- >>mentioned before, my ROM 3 has both CDAs locked in with no apparent way to
- >
- > By using the built-in monitor you can change the battery ram, see below.
-
- I fired up my assembler and whipped up a little code to do it myself. Easier
- to understand than those funky monitor commands.
-
- >>disable them. I've tried purging my BRAM settings by setting the system to
- >>50Hz or 60Hz (CTRL-OPTION-RESET, 2 or 3), but they're still in the menu! :-(
- >
- > Hummm, I never tried it on my rom 3 to verify if it still works.
- >
- >>ROM 3 CPUs (CDAs locked in menu permanetly), but I'm wondering if maybe it has
- >>something to do with this special battery RAM setting.
-
- Gee, why would you not want them? They are ROM based and take up no memory, and
- there is no limit on DA's like there used to be, so I can't imagine why you
- would go to the trouble to get rid of them.
-
- > There is another location that tells System 6 not to display icons at the
- > bottom of the screen during boot up. I didn't save the information when
- > Dave L. posted it a long while back (I like icons).
-
- You set bit 2 of location $5F to kill the icons. I really like that mod myself.
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- Randy Shackelford "That's right, just keep tap dancing
- rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu on the minefield" - Al Bundy
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