UG1459@SYSE.SALFORD.AC.UK (02/01/89)
Does anyone know of a *LEGAL* way of calling programs in the cartridge port?
I know the desktop does this but and has it listed as device 'c:', but try
issuing a list of device 'c:' from GEMDOS just produces a directory of device
C: (i.e. Hard/Ram disk). Also are applications loaded from the cartridge port
as an EXEC would do, or are they run in situ.
Thanks in advance
Robert
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In article <8902011219.AA17736@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> UG1459@SYSE.SALFORD.AC.UK writes: >Does anyone know of a *LEGAL* way of calling programs in the cartridge port? >I know the desktop does this but and has it listed as device 'c:', but try >issuing a list of device 'c:' from GEMDOS just produces a directory of device >C: (i.e. Hard/Ram disk). Also are applications loaded from the cartridge port >as an EXEC would do, or are they run in situ. GEMDOS itself does not support the cartridge, in terms of being able to run a program from the cartridge. the desktop code handles the cartridge, and displays the info in the cartridge in standard window on the desktop. as for a *legal* way to run programs from the cartridge, i don't think there is provision in the current GEMDOS/GEM operating system to call a cartridge program. if you're interested, in Atari ST Internals, by abacus, there is a couple of pages on the cartridge port, and the organization of data on the cartridge, including how a program is stored. It may be a simple matter of writing a small stub program, that is normally called from GEMDOS, which simply does a jsr to the program on the cartridge, since programs on cartridge are usually absolute (ie: programs on cartridge are usually relocated into cartridge address space, thus you can call them directly, or at least the atari vt100 cartridge is like this.) i believe this is all the desktop is doing when you click on a program icon in the cartridge window. try bugging atari about it. i'm sure you'll get as little help from them as i have gotten :-) good luck! -- Ignac A. Kolenko watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac "Perhaps if we built this large wooden badger ..." - from Monty Python and the Holy Grail