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From: rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Boot-block contest
Keywords: why not ?
Message-ID: <609@inria.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 13:20:50 GMT
Organization: INRIA, Rocquencourt. France
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By now, thanks to SCA ;-), you all know that we have some free space in
the boot-blocks of DOS-bootable disks to write a small piece of code.
How about launching a boot-block contest ?
I propose some criterions : usefulness, grpahics, sound, fun ...
Of course, boot process should continue properly after your code has
terminated, and assembly source of the code should be provided.


PS: does anyone know how to get the ViewPort adress of the "Workbench hand".
It seems that the strap code does an AllocMem for the total amount of
needed structures, and stores the pointers in a local stack (indexed by A5).
and then proceeds to initializations (InitRastPort, ...), before actually
drawing the picture.