[comp.sys.amiga.tech] Damaged KS disks

jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) (05/17/88)

> Aside to old-time KS hackers ... I purposely munged the checksum to

I am not one, but I'll hazard a guess...

> see what the A1000 would do with an invalid KS ... nothing!  As if it
> didn't even check it.  So I munged more blocks (ASCII text, not code)
> and it still booted fine.  Whazzup?

Depending on the damage inflicted I could suspect that is it some
sort of error correcting scheme, it didn't complain since it fixed
it itself.

On a side note, did your screen change colors, like red or green at
boot time?

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