Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!atari!apratt
From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ETRNL2 and new roms
Message-ID: <991@atari.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 20:26:23 GMT
References: <432@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <432@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk>, 
leilabd@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk (Leila Burrell-Davis) says:
> 
> A colleague tells me he has recently acquired a 1040 STF with the new OS roms
> and finds that he can no longer remove John Franco's ETRNL2 ram disk by doing
> a reset with CAPS LOCK held down.
> 
> Any ideas why that might be? Any chance of a fix ... John?

Yes: it sounds like he used the unpublished, floating variable for the
keyboard shift state, rather than the BIOS call which gives the same
information.

I can understand using the OS variable when it's time-critical, like
in the main loop of a game, but why not use the BIOS call when it's
just a one-shot?  Beats me.

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