sean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Sean Sterling Foiles) (04/09/91)
I'm not certain, but ... I assume thoriginal Tos1.0 on floppy is considered pd. If so, could some one please post this to Terminator? I've discovered some programs tht do not work under Tos 1.4 and wish to try booting first with the old Tos. No flames if this sounds foolish (wont the internal 1.4 over-ride the software 1.0?), but some in net land once told me that this tactic fixed his problem. Thanks in advance, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sean Sterling Foiles / Univ. Texas Comp Sci Grad / sean@happy.cc.utexas.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
brode@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jon Brode) (04/09/91)
In article <46902@ut-emx.uucp> sean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Sean Sterling Foiles) writes: >I'm not certain, but ... I assume thoriginal Tos1.0 on floppy is >considered pd. If so, could some one please post this to Terminator? Please don't. If you do upload it, we won't put it up for download unless we get explicit approval from Atari to do so. We already got it trouble with them for having TOS 1.4 up for download, we don't need any more problems. The tos-up-for-download incident prompted us to stop allowing people to download things directly from the "new" directory. Now we have to review everything before it gets made available for retrieval. Finally, we're atari.archive.umich.edu first and foremost. The fact that you can reach us via terminator is just a coincidence. Jon
neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) (04/10/91)
In article <46902@ut-emx.uucp> sean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Sean Sterling Foiles) writes: >I'm not certain, but ... I assume thoriginal Tos1.0 on floppy is >considered pd. If so, could some one please post this to Terminator? I doubt it. If Atari think anyone wants something they usually put a price on it. I'm still waiting to hear if NEOchrome is PD or not despite PD libraries distributing it far and wide. >I've discovered some programs tht do not work under Tos 1.4 and wish >to try booting first with the old Tos. This works for some things and not others. If a program relies on a bug or the way something is done by TOS 1.0 the it will work but if it relies on the location of undocumented locations it probably won't. Some games in the bad old days used to load at absolute addresses and will land on the TOS image in RAM. >No flames if this sounds foolish (wont the internal 1.4 over-ride the >software 1.0?), but some in net land once told me that this tactic >fixed his problem. Until you press the reset button (CTRL-ALT-DEL won't work of course) or switch off, your TOS 1.0 would be in control. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sean Sterling Foiles / Univ. Texas Comp Sci Grad / sean@happy.cc.utexas.edu >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! DISCLAIMER:Unless otherwise stated, the above comments are entirely my own ! ! ! ! Neil Forsyth JANET: neil@uk.ac.hw.cs ! ! Dept. of Computer Science ARPA: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk ! ! Heriot-Watt University UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil ! ! Edinburgh, Scotland, UK "That was never 5 ROM versions!" ! +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+