Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!D.ISI.EDU!DYOUNG From: DYOUNG@D.ISI.EDU (C. David Young) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari8 Subject: Re: RAMDisks and SpartaDOS Message-ID: <8609170232.AA01191@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 16:28:33 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8609170232.AA01191 Posted: Tue Sep 16 16:28:33 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Sep-86 06:24:48 EDT References: <8609160117.AA19015@umix.cc.umich.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 32 Both Newell and I support the Rambo XL with our software. MYDOS, which comes with the 256KXL, is flexible enough to support it, the 256KXL, and AXLON compatible ram upgrades. The same is true of my OmniWriter. Since the differences between these upgrades are very small for ramdisk applications, there is no reason not to support them all except if you need a marketing gimmick to help sell an inferior product. Just this week Gord Spielmann of Oshawa, Ontario wrote to me with a patch that is supposed to do the trick. He writes: For the SpartaDos RD.COM file, the changes are on sector 148. The original file contains the following byte sequence: 60 64 68 6C 20 24 28 2C ... For the 256KXL this has been changed to: 60 64 68 6C 40 44 48 4C 00 04 08 0C 20 24 28 2C ... I don't know if this patch works since I have not tried it. Let me know if anybody has a problem with it. By the way, OmniCom, my VT100/Kermit/XMODEM package, is almost ready for distribution to the net. I will be putting it on a directory on our host that anyone can access via FTP without a password. The only requirement is OMNIVIEW for the 80 column output. Send me your mailing address is you need more info on OMNIVIEW. I will let everyone know when OmniCom is ready to be fetched. David Young -------