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USING HOMETERM WITH THE AXLON RAMDISK AND MPP MODEM
You must have the following to use HomeTerm with the Axlon 128K
board and the MPP 1000E or C modems:
The file called HTMPPRD.XMO. This is the HomePak AUTORUN.SYS file
with the Ramdisk initialization program and the HomeTerm MPP handler
already appended to it. Since you will be using SMARTDOS, this
program should be named HTMPPRD.AR1.
The Axlon 128K board (of course).
The 8K bank-switching version of OMNIMON installed in your ATARI 800.
The Ramdisk init program will make a call to the OMNIMON Ramdisk
handler routines.
SMARTDOS 8.2d. This is a single or double density DOS which is still
available from mail-order houses and such. The reason you need this
DOS is that ATARI DOS 2.0 and 2.5 use up a little too much memory,
causing a conflict with the Hometerm MPP handler. SMARTDOS should be
set (using the DEFAULT program supplied on the master disk) to 3
drives, 3 file I/O buffers, and one .AR? file.
If you have all of the above, then you're ready to proceed.
First, format and write DOS files to a new disk with SMARTDOS (after
setting the options as described above). Then copy HTMPPRD to this
disk and rename it to HTMPPRD.AR1. Then you can copy the HOMETERM
program to this disk along with its .SET configuration file. If you
want this disk to automatically boot to HomeTerm, rename HomeTerm to
HOMEMENU.OBJ.
If you've done everything correctly you should now have a
self-booting Ramdisk version of HomeTerm for the MPP modem. When the
Ramdisk init program is executed it will format the Ramdisk as drive
3. Then it will copy DUP.SYS to the Ramdisk and alter SMARTDOS so
that if you go to DOS, DUP.SYS will load from the Ramdisk.
What, you say? Go to DOS? From HomeTerm? Well, with OMNIMON
many strange and wonderful things are possible! Here's how to enter
DOS from HomeTerm.
First, go to the option menu screen of HomeTerm. Be sure you're
finished using HomeTerm for the moment, and then enter OMNIMON by
pressing SELECT/RESET. Execute the command "J 1780". In the 8K
version of OMNIMON, you will need to switch to the upper bank when
this command is entered. Flip the switch and press RETURN. Then hold
START and press RETURN to exit OMNIMON. You have to switch back to
the lower bank to execute this command. So when your screen turns
upside down (OMNIMON's signal to flip the switch) go ahead and flip
it, then press START/RETURN again. DUP.SYS will load from the Ramdisk
very quickly. I find that using SMARTDOS to copy files I've
downloaded to the Ramdisk is much easier and faster than using the
HomeTerm copying option.
Enjoy! -- Charles F. Johnson 75066,404
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