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From: treesh@bach.helios.nd.edu
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Subject: Re: DesTerm 2.00
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.235658.6660@news.nd.edu>
Date: 28 Dec 90 23:56:58 GMT
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YES!  A Lt Kernal version of the Des Term program would be just super great!
 
I love my Lt Kernal Drive, but my only complaint about it is that most software
develpers are afraid of the darn thing, and thus usualy will alaways say..
 
   'Im sorry, but its not my faulght the software wont run on your system
    its that damn lt kernal dos.'  

As a Cnet user from back in the days of Cnet 10.0 for the 64, I have learned
that most non-commodore hardware causes a major screw up with a lot of
commdore software.  Cnet was a rather memory speciffic program, and thus
having anything in your system that was not total-commdore hardware
caused a lot of problem. 
 
Im still scared to death of stuff like Jiffy Dos, or anything that alters
the root opperating system of the 64/128. 
 
I can say that Im very suprised with the amout of compatibility my lt kernal
does give me.  Although you may consider it an 'extended basic' cartridge
because of the additional commands it gives you, its suprizingly does 
pretty much stay out of the way of most sofware.
 
It runs my Cnet 128 just fine, and I know for fact it works great wiht Image as well.
 

The dos book that comes with the drive gives programming considerations.
For the most part, stay away from fast-loaders, god knows you dont need them
with a kernal, and also dont load over the stack!  Switching in and out
ROMSmS is ok though.