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- { Gets the ROM BIOS date in a ASCII string.
- Part of the Heartware Toolkit v2.00 (HTelse.PAS) for Turbo Pascal.
- Author: Jose Almeida. P.O.Box 4185. 1504 Lisboa Codex. Portugal.
- I can also be reached at RIME network, site ->TIB or #5314.
- Feel completely free to use this source code in any way you want, and, if
- you do, please don't forget to mention my name, and, give me and Swag the
- proper credits. }
-
- FUNCTION ROM_Bios_Date : String8;
- { DESCRIPTION:
- Gets the ROM BIOS date in a ASCII string.
- SAMPLE CALL:
- S := ROM_Bios_Date
- RETURNS:
- e.g., '06/10/85'.
- NOTES:
- Later versions of the Compaq have this release date shifted by 1 byte,
- to start at F000:FFF6h }
-
- var
- Tmp : String8;
-
- BEGIN { ROM_Bios_Date }
- FillChar(Tmp,0,8);
- Tmp[0] := Chr(8);
- Move(Mem[$F000:$FFF5],Tmp[1],8);
- ROM_Bios_Date := Tmp;
- END; { ROM_Bios_Date }