Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!psuvax1!psuvm!sml108
From: SML108@PSUVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ROM disassembly for TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <89245.160144SML108@PSUVM>
Date: 2 Sep 89 20:01:44 GMT
References: <9401@chinet.chi.il.us> <1666@atari.UUCP>
Organization: Penn State University
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On the subject of TOS 1.4 Rom disassemblies....

I'm all for it, there's no better way to learn a hodge-podge of dirty tricks
than looking at the work of code wizards with carnal knowledge of the machine
they write for.

  Sure for the most part one should use docuemented calls, but there ARE
cases where this simply isn't practical.  In my case, I wrote a handler
to play 16 bit samples through a board my brother built, and if I had
used "documented" calls to read the MIDI port to get synth input, the thing
would have only been able to play at approx. 4 Khz with 8 voices rather
than the 16 it currently plays at.  So what if the machine got changed, I
can easily write an update, and I would think that if I ever get anyone to
market it, they would rather have the power than the portability....