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- From: "Marek Tomczyk" <UJ1G@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
- Subject: secrets of $E477 (on my 130XE)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.180026.21701@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Sender: usenet@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:00:26 GMT
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- Just out of curiosity, I disassembled the first part of the
- power up routine staring at $E477.
- There's one thing I don't understand about it.
- Somewhere at the beginning of the routine the OS determines if
- the trigger of the 3rd (!) joystick has been pressed when the computer
- is powering up. In this case another subroutine is called.
-
- The interesting thing about it is that my 130XE doesn't have
- any plugs for more than two joysticks. When I try to check the
- hardware register for the 3rd joystick's trigger, it says that the
- trigger has been pressed. Does this register have another function
- on my 130XE than on the 400/800s?
- I could guess that this register indicates the presence of extra
- RAM or something. Am I right?
- I recall something about the 3rd and 4th joystick ports of the
- 800s being redesigned for memory management purposes on XL/XE
- computers and therefore no longer available to the outside world.
- This is obvious for the PORTB register, but what has happend with
- the triggers?
-
- Marek Tomczyk
-
- uj1g@dkauni2.bitnet
- or
- uj1g@ibm3090.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
-