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- Patching the OS ROM for the emulated filesystem
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-
- The emulated filesystem works by intercepting calls to OSFILE and OSFSC
- by inserting unused op-codes at the first instruction executed as part
- of these routines. (Basically we're looking at the locations to which
- the OSFILEV and OSFSCV vectores point here.)
-
- Given that you have your copy of the 1.2 OS ROM, in the pch directory
- that will read that in, make the patches and write it out again. You need
- to make a copy of the ROM called "OS1.2p1.rom" before you start -- it's
- this file that gets modified.
-
- OSFILE is trapped by putting in the unused opcode 0x22 and OSFSC is trapped
- with 0x02. The addresses at which these op-codes are inserted are &f27d
- and &f1b1 respectively.
-
- If you want to run the emulator with a different ROM, you'll need to
- set the locations in the program itself. Everything *should* work OK once
- those changes have been made -- if you do get it to work, let me know
- the OS version and the addresses so that I can update the program.
-
- Emulation of the filing system in this way is not too difficult, but
- causes problems where it can't be sufficiently well integrated into the
- OS. In places the emulator will terminate because there's no way to
- handle any given error properly (ie, as it would be handled by the OS).
-