From: Christian Groessler (chris_at_groessler.org)
Date: 2003-03-14 15:02:44
Hi, On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Shawn Jefferson wrote: > >I'm now looking into using some tiny loader DOS > >(MyPicoDOS, http://www.horus.com/~hias/atari/) where it could be loaded at > >$700 (w/o R: handler). But MyPicoDOS cannot yet load both the R: driver > >and then the contiki app. So I think I'll try to modify MyPicoDOS to load > >the R: driver by itself (should give some final load address at around > >$DC0 for contiki). > > With these mini-loader DOSes, will cc65 file i/o routines work? No, the DOS is only loading the program and then disappearing... > >Another idea is to get more memory by loading the 800 (not xl) BIOS into > >RAM which should make the area $C000 to $D000 available (not used by this > >BIOS), giving another 4k of RAM. > > That would cut off some hardware from being used with Contiki (PBI > hard drives.) Maybe that's not an issue. Do they use the area btw $C000 and $D000? I thought all devices are mapped into the $D000-$E000 region? > >> Once its done, I'd be interested in programming some apps/utils for it! Looks very > >neat. > > > >The memory is very tight on the Atari, so it's not that straightforward... > > Maybe we would have to implement some type of application swapping to > extended memory. Also not everyone is going to want to run the http > server, web browser, telnet client, email, etc... It would be better > to implement these things as loadable modules and let the user load > which ones they wanted until they fill up memory. The memory is so tight with only the web browser, the other things are already disabled... :-( regards, chris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo_at_musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.
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