Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole
From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: bios function 0x7f
Message-ID: <580@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 89 12:54:22 GMT
References: <12076@hall.cray.com> <3767@druhi.ATT.COM> <1263@atari.UUCP> <12210@hall.cray.com>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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[I know this is late, but the Swiss backbone always closes down over
 Christmas/New Year]
In article <12210@hall.cray.com> rosenkra@hall.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:
>lighten up, allan...
>
>i was not advocating its use nor do i even plan to use it in my own stuff
>i just wanted to know what was going on...
>
>i do, however, appreciate your frustration. i  have just found out how
>relying on undocumented  stuff is bad. on my 1040 i used to use GEMBOOT
>(i know, a BIG no-no). well, now with my mega4, gemboot does not work.

You must have  a really old version of GEMBOOT, newer versions (mine is
surely nearly a year old) have a variable that you can set to the address
of the internal free list, we've got various machines here with Mega Roms
including a Mega ST 4 and they all have GEMBOOT installed.



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