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From: norlin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (NARC ONE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Old queries from a new user
Message-ID: <1989Oct27.153548.16804@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 89 15:35:48 GMT
References: <631@mindlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: norlin@uokmax.UUCP (NARC ONE)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network, Norman, OK
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In article <631@mindlink.UUCP> a344@mindlink.UUCP (Tom Klok) writes:
>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.  [Stuff deleted...]

No, I've tried it, and it works, and I read somewhere that they fixed that
burst-mode stuff for DOS 2.5.  I believe it copies it to a RAM buffer before
writing the sector link information.  Anyway, as I said, I tried it, and
it works, so I think it's pretty safe.

-- 
Norman Lin

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