csch@tub.UUCP (02/24/87)
munch .......... blech - rotten food ...
Ok! Listen, Simon - I would send ATARI a little box, with something ,,ticking''
in it (you can see what I mean every time you produce a bus-error) ...
... if they change the next ROM-version (if there will ever be one ...) so that
it won't load desk-accesories and desktop.inf from drive C.
---> BECAUSE:
Due to a bug in the us-version of the TOS-ROMs (I think it's only ,,a bit'')
this version WON'T boot a hard-disk - so, I agree with you - it wouldn't make
sense to load the above named files from c: .
---> BUT:
I've got my 60MB-Supra BOOTING for over 1/2 a year now !!! And I like it
this way ... 'cause I never had any serious problems ...
Thus IT MAKES SENSE, because loading something from a SUPRA-Drive (I don't
know the performance of ATARI-drives ...???!!!...) is MUCH FASTER, than
loading it from a 354 or 314 ...
Rgds.
Clemens
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~gordon@sage.UUCP (02/26/87)
In article <49500001@tub.UUCP> csch@tub.UUCP writes: >... if they change the next ROM-version (if there will ever be one ...) so that >it won't load desk-accesories and desktop.inf from drive C. My version of the roms, and most of those I've used here (in England) (mostly fairly early ones) do not use C for any of these things (yes, I did use upper case C). Just how mauch differance between the functionality of the different versions of the roms (in different countries?) is there ?
dyer@atari.UUCP (03/03/87)
> Just how mauch differance between the functionality of the different > versions of the roms (in different countries?) is there ? Not much variation. The only major differences are changes in the keyboard parser, the text in resources for the various countries, and whether to set the PAL bit in the shifter. The ROM has some idea of "what country am I?", but the ROMs are different and those infamous "undocumented locations" may bounce up and down depending on what country you're in. -- -Landon Dyer, Atari Corp. {sun,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer The views expressed here do not not necessarily reflect those of Atari Corp. Segments are for worms.