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From: a344@mindlink.UUCP (Tom Klok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Old queries from a new user
Message-ID: <631@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 89 20:08:06 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In Msg-ID <1989Oct24.134518.5778@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> norlin writes:
> I don't know if you can still buy the Rev. C cartridge, but an easy solution
> would be to find a friend with a 130XE (which has Rev. C BASIC), save to disk
> (from DOS 2.5 menu option K) the BASIC cartridge ($A000-BFFF), then write an
> assembly language header to precede the file you just wrote.  The assembly
> language header will 

Um... I think you'll have problems with that binary save from DOS 2.5. If 2.5
works anything like 2,0 in it's burst mode writes, then it will attempt to
write the cartridge out in burst mode, and totally mess up the sector links,
yielding an undeletable useless file.  Best to either turn burst mode off (the
pokes are in Mapping the Atari under FMS), or write a small basic program to
dump the ROM space to a file.  Something like...

10 OPEN #1,8,0,"D1:BASICC.OBJ"
20 PUT #1,255:PUT #1,255:REM $FFFF file header
30 PUT #1,0:PUT #1,160:REM $A000 start address
40 PUT #1,255:PUT #1,191:REM $BFFF end address
50 FOR ADDR=40960 TO 49151:PUT #1,PEEK(I):NEXT ADDR:REM body
60 END:REM close too

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Tom Klok                     Vancouver BC Canada
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