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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Upgrading to 1.3 (was Re: CBM's "blessing")
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Date: 5 Oct 88 17:59:55 GMT
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For the nth time, and a litany that will be repeated many, many times :

	1.3 Does not support FFS on floppy disks, nor does it support
	FFS on the *partition* that is autobooted. 

That is why many autobooting hard disks will have a small OFS partition
that boots automatically, and this mounts and transfers assignments to
an FFS partition. So there you have it, the 1.3 ROMS don't buy you that
much. A note to game writers who go right to the metal, the entry points
into the routines in the ROMS *have* changed position, so if you jump
into the ROM at some point, or read a value from it, you program will
*NOT* run under 1.3. The game "Crazy Cars" does this and it is incredibly
ill-concieved on their part. So the moral of the story is, even if you
don't give a damn about the OS, at least use it long enough to tell you
where the entry points you need are and then ignore it. 

I see 1.3 as more of a statement by Commodore that they *Will* change the
ROMs than I do as an improvement to Kickstart. Now 1.3 Workbench is a 
definite improvement, and one that I look forward to being available.


--Chuck McManis
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.