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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ROM disassembly for TOS 1.4
Keywords: ROM disassembly TOS1.4 Abacus internals
Message-ID: <3388@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 89 09:38:02 GMT
References: <9401@chinet.chi.il.us> <3355@netmbx.UUCP> <1060@electro.UUCP>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <1060@electro.UUCP> ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) writes:
>>The book is german. Still want it?
>(tried to email to you, but it bounced, so i'll post here instead:)

Oh god. This bounce back should be over by now.
Try ...!uunet!unido!netmbx!hase. Works.

>anyways, i'd sure like to have more info on this book. Das TOS Listing
>could become the new atari bible, giving ST Internals the rest it 
>deserves!!!

Well, it is handy when used together with other documentation (like the
MWC Lexicon and Tim Orens progem articles)

The book has C-source listings for Gemdos and disassemblies of AHDI.PRG,
Bios, Xbios and parts of VDI.
The sources and comments descibe the way, a function works. It is not
possible to "roll Your own" Gemdos-replacement.

The second volume (planned since the first one showed up) never made it,
probably because of legal action against it. It was planned as
discompilation of VDI and AES (and probably DESKTOP.APP)...

>btw, what is the legallity of such a publication. is this the reason
>that this book is not available in the us???

It is still availeble in Germany. The publishers never thought about a
translation to English (as far, as I know). This could be the reason for
it not being availeble in the US.

The publication is as legal as the "Internals" book: the german
"Internals" (Atari ST Intern, Data Becker) was a "compacted reprint" of
the development system docs.

hase
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