Re: [cc65] Atari executables w/ AtariMax flashcart

--- Carsten Strotmann <carsten@strotmann.de> wrote:

> Hmm, I'm  not at home, so I cannot prove my view on
> real hardware with 
> an AtariMax Flashcart. I had the same problem with
> my Forth System when 
> I stored the Forth on the AtariMax. The Forth Systm
> also expects 
> channel (IOCB) 0 to be open for screen output. All I
> needed to do was 
> to restore the original Displaylist, and everything
> worked fine.

Really?  I find that strange, since I just loaded an
8Mb cartridge into the emulator and setup a break on
the init address of the cartridge.  SAVMSC is zero,
and SDLSTL is zero too.

I double checked the exepmenu.a65 file, and the
cartridge init+run vectors are setup as follows:

$A000, $00, $01, $A000

Which, according to Mapping the Atari, means start
vector: $A000, cartridge present, do disk boot, init
but don't start cartridge, init vector: $A000.

Do I not understand how this is working, or is there
something else going on?
 
> Yes, this might be the case, that the displaylist
> and the screen memory 
> are still on $9c00. I need to check that once I'm
> back home. Also, this 
> should be fixed (or implemented as an option) in the
> AtariMax software.

It's easy enough to make a command-line option to open
E: (which should move the screen and display list
memory) as part of the exeunpak.a65 file.  I think
this would be a good thing.  I'll see what I can do
and send it to Steve.
 
> If Shawn is working with a new AtariMax Prototype,
> we might see a new 
> AtariMax Software release anyway :) (I'm really
> curious)

Nothing overly exciting.  I'll send you a private
message.

PS. Apologies to the list as we're going slightly
off-topic.

--
Shawn Jefferson


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