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From: colas@mirsa.inria.fr (Colas NAHABOO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Multiface
Message-ID: <201@mirsa.inria.fr>
Date: 17 Jul 89 13:37:37 GMT
References: <329@ucl-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Koala Project -- BULL/INRIA
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From article <329@ucl-cs.UUCP>, by S.Usher@ucl-cs.UUCP:
> The Cartridge has a button on it which, when pressed, stops whatever program
> was running, saves the screen if it can, and drops you into a monitor/editor
> program (which is in the ROM onboard). From here you can save anything to
> disc (as long as you can fit it onto a disc).

Yes. Except that nearly all recent programs mask the interrupt(s) generated by
Multiface, so it is useless with all the recent programs I own (Populous,
Archipelagos, DM, starglider II, etc...), which will ignore the press on the
multiface button.
(I borrowed a friend's multiface to test it).

It is only useful with Falcon, which is stopped, and so you can save/restore 
a game anywhere (just before landing!)

Colas NAHABOO        -- colas@mirsa.inria.fr
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