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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
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- Developer Technical Support
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- Apple IIgs
- #88: The Page One Stack in a 16-Bit World
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- Written by: Dave Lyons September 1990
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- This Technical Note clarifies the protocol for moving the stack pointer in and
- out of page one.
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- On page 13 of the Apple IIgs Firmware Reference, under "Save the value of the
- native-mode stack pointer," there is a code sample showing how to switch to
- the page-one stack by setting the stack pointer to $01xx, where xx is the
- contents of EMULSTACK at $01/0100.
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- However, the manual does not warn you about moving the stack pointer from page
- one to another area. When you do that, you must store the low byte of the
- stack pointer at EMULSTACK before moving the stack pointer out of page one.
- If you do not save the page-one stack properly, interrupt routines or some
- toolbox calls may destroy a part of the page one stack that you go back to
- later, expecting that return addresses are still there.
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- Note: If the auxiliary-memory stack and zero page are in use, you must
- use $01/0101 instead of $01/0100. See the Apple IIe Technical
- Reference Manual, pp. 153-154
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- Further Reference
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- o Apple IIgs Firmware Reference
- o Apple IIe Technical Reference Manual
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