HEACOCK@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (Doug Heacock) (08/30/88)
I downloaded BLU 2.28 from LISTSERV@BROWNVM, EXEC'ed it, and here's what happened: after the program was saved, I got this on the screen: AC78- 85 * C010- 0D * 824A- FF * ] I pressed <RETURN> at the Applesoft prompt, just to reassure myself that all was, indeed, well, and then I got bumped back into the monitor: 9500- 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 * I went back to Applesoft, rebooted (I'm using ProDOS 8 v 1.4), and did a CATALOG, which showed BLU as follows: BLU BIN 45 <NO DATE> <NO DATE> 22139 A=$1000 So I entered -BLU, it loaded, and returned me to the Applesoft prompt, with no other visible effects. I got into the monitor, listed from $1000: 1000 JMP $204A 1003 INC $41EE 1006 BRK 1007 BRK etc.. The BRK's continued until $1048, where something that looked like code began. All of this led me to believe that the program should have loaded at $2000; I seemed to remember reading something about system programs loading there. So I decided it was worth a shot, and BLOADed BLU at $2000. From the monitor, I gave the 2000G command, and got a beep; a box on the screen, made from inverse L's and Z's and other characters, and a message inside the box that said, "MLI ERROR $56 ($20C7- $C7), Bad Buffer address, press any key; then I got an Applesoft error (?OVERFLOW ERROR) and an Applsoft prompt. I pressed RETURN, and got a beep and a register dump: 00C5- A=00 X=FF Y=01 P=B4 S=F2 * I know this is a rather windy explanation--sorry--but I'm getting nowhere with this. Can someone help? (I'm guessing it will be obvious to many of you...) Oh, yes...my Apple is a 128K //e (unenhanced). Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Doug Heacock ACS User Services The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 BITNET: HEACOCK@UKANVAX Internet: HEACOCK@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU
JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook) (09/03/88)
> I downloaded BLU 2.28 from LISTSERV@BROWNVM, EXEC'ed it, and here's what > happened: after the program was saved, I got this on the screen: > > AC78- 85 > * > C010- 0D > * > 824A- FF > * > ] Two ideas come to mind. The first is that I seem to recall that you must have BASIC.SYSTEM installed before EXECing a file created by the EXECUTIONER. I requested the BLU 2.28 file (88-00532) from the LISTSERVer at BROWNVM and noticed that there are 3 lines of garbage at the end of the file. These lines *MUST* be removed. Delete everything after the line that says "E00G". At least the file is in the 4-bit packing mode so you shouldn't be having problems caused by ASCII/EBCDIC translations. ------------------------------------------------------------------- J. Douglas Ashbrook (301) 496-5181 BITNET: JDA@NIHCU ARPA: jda%nihcu.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu National Institutes of Health, Computer Center, Bethesda, MD 20892 P.S. Rock Chalk Jayhawk!