home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Atari Mega Archive 2
/
Atari Mega Archive CD - Volume 2.iso
/
8bit
/
cislib_b
/
spdkey.doc
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1995-04-22
|
1KB
|
48 lines
1) Copy Speedscript to a clean disk
containing DOS.SYS. Name this file
SPEED.OBJ
2) With the same disk in drive 1,
RUN the Basic program SPDKEY.BIN.
This writes a short binary file
named KEEZ.OBJ. The file just POKEs
speeded up values to the keyboard
registers at 729,730. You can change
'em in the last two bytes of DATA.
3) Go to DUP.SYS, and append
SPEED.OBJ to KEEZ.OBJ by selecting
OPTION C and typing:
SPEED.OBJ,KEEZ.OBJ/A
4) RENAME (OPTION E) KEEZ.OBJ to
AUTORUN.SYS
You can now boot up with the new
file and you'll find yourself with
the fast keyboard you didn't know
you were missing.
This speedup is NOT protected from
RESET. Whip out the assembler if you
want to get ambitious. The same
principle of appending applies.
NOTE: once you do this, my other
Speedscript patches, D8SPEED.BIN,
and CHARMOD.BIN, won't work without
modification. You've added 8 bytes
to the front of the file.
Incidentally, with all this
patching, please don't forget to
thank your lucky stars that Charles
Brannon and COMPUTE! gave us the
original. It's an Amazingly Fine
Program
don