usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (10/18/89)
Has anyone ever successfuly used AMAC and MEDIT under SpartaDOS? SpartaDOS has a wonderful RAMdisk driver, RD.COM, and if you haven't used the original Atari production macro assembler before, let's just say it's VERY obvious Atari had hard disks for the development group. Or depressants. Regardless, I bought the AMAC/MEDIT macro assembler package but would like to use it under Sparta and it chokes. It also assumes the default drive is 1 and some other crimes. Certainly one could always use a ramdisk driver for DOS XL or the like, but what a crime. SpartaDOS is clearly the hot Atari DOS and now it looks like I have to do some work in 8bit ville again so... News would be appreciated. Terry Conklin conklin@egr.msu.edu uunet!frith!conklin The Club (517) 372-3131 Club II (313) 334-8877
slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey) (10/18/89)
In article <5023@cps3xx.UUCP> conklin@frith.UUCP (Terry Conklin) writes: >Has anyone ever successfuly used AMAC and MEDIT under SpartaDOS? I never got it to work, I suspect because AMAC can have far more than 7 files open at once, and I suspect in order to do this it ends up twiddling the I/O system at a lower level than regular software would, and SpartaDOS probably doesn't look the same as DOS2 in its lower levels. The behavior I saw was it would read the first file, but hung when accessing the first INCLUDE'd file. AMAC does however run under MYDOS, which has tons of RAMdisk support. I use AMAC under MYDOS, with the text/program editor I wrote (under AMAC.) The reason AMAC has its drive 1 fixation is for the &^*$% copy protection. This subject came up here a week or two ago. -Stan