info-atari@ucbvax.UUCP (01/14/86)
I have been trying to get COMPUTE!s MLX Machine Language Editor to work on my 800XL to type in SpeedScript 3.0 from a published binary listing. (Please hold back your comments on the sanity of doing this when machine readable versions are available...) I find that MLX itself works fine except that when I save and reload the program, the data appears shifted, as though one byte got lost somewhere and everything has been moved forward in the memory image. The version of MLX I am using is in COMPUTE!s book on SpeedScript 3.0 for the Atari. I seem to recall that there was a comment about such a problem on the net a few weeks ago regarding sector write/read operations. Does anybody out there know about this? Is there an "approved" fix? Am I causing trouble for myself by using an older DOS (2.0 or so)? Will the problem magically go away if I use the 3.0 DOS that came with the disk drive? Any help will be greatly appreciated. -John Sangster jhs at mitre-bedford.arpa