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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Terminator Request
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Date: 10 Apr 91 07:53:09 GMT
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In article <46902@ut-emx.uucp> sean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Sean Sterling Foiles)
writes:
>I'm not certain, but ... I assume thoriginal Tos1.0 on floppy is
>considered pd.  If so, could some one please post this to Terminator?

I doubt it. If Atari think anyone wants something they usually put a price on
it. I'm still waiting to hear if NEOchrome is PD or not despite PD libraries
distributing it far and wide.

>I've discovered some programs tht do not work under Tos 1.4 and wish
>to try booting first with the old Tos.  

This works for some things and not others. If a program relies on a bug or the
way something is done by TOS 1.0 the it will work but if it relies on the
location of undocumented locations it probably won't. Some games in the bad
old days used to load at absolute addresses and will land on the TOS image in
RAM.

>No flames if this sounds foolish (wont the internal 1.4 over-ride the
>software 1.0?), but some in net land once told me that this tactic
>fixed his problem.

Until you press the reset button (CTRL-ALT-DEL won't work of course) or
switch off, your TOS 1.0 would be in control.

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> Sean Sterling Foiles  / Univ. Texas Comp Sci Grad / sean@happy.cc.utexas.edu 
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