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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
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- Developer Technical Support
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- SmartPort
- #6: Apple IIgs SmartPort Errata
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- Revised by: Matt Deatherage November 1990
- Written by: Matt Deatherage November 1988
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- This Technical Note documents two bugs in the Apple IIgs SmartPort firmware.
- Changes since November 1988: Documented corrections in ROM 03 and an
- additional ROM 03 bug.
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- Developers should be aware of the following two bugs in the Apple IIgs ROM 01
- SmartPort firmware:
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- 1. SmartPort accidentally uses locations $57 through $5A on the zero
- page without saving and restoring them first. There is some
- confusion as to whether these bytes are used on the absolute zero
- page or on the caller's direct page. This is a moot point--
- SmartPort calls are required to be made from full-emulation mode.
- This requirement means the emulation bit must be set and the data
- bank and direct page registers must both be set to zero. The
- bytes are used on the absolute zero page, as that should be the
- direct page when SmartPort is called.
- 2. If an extended SmartPort CONTROL call is made, the CONTROL list
- must not start at $FFFE or $FFFF of any bank. The IIgs SmartPort
- interface does not increment the bank pointer when moving past the
- two-byte CONTROL list length. If a CONTROL list starts one or two
- bytes before a bank boundary, SmartPort will incorrectly read the
- list from the beginning of that bank, instead of the beginning of
- the next bank.
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- The ROM 03 firmware fixes these bugs; however, it has a bug in the ResetHook
- device-specific CONTROL call for the Apple 3.5" Drive. With this bug, hook
- numbers of nine or greater crash the machine. At present, hook numbers in this
- range are invalid, so this bug should not be a problem.
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- Further Reference
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- o Apple IIgs Firmware Reference
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