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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Rick_Michael_Cortese
- From: Rick_Michael_Cortese@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: File Headers.
- Message-ID: <74523@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 10:57:23 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <01GTPN1EK9H491Y69D@vax.edinboro.edu>
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- A little late, but I happened to be going through some old disk and
- came accross somethiung I did a couple of years ago. I forgot the
- exact setup the guy had, but it was something like a packet radio
- hooked up to the joystick ports of an 800. He had a couple of AUTORUN.SYS
- files or something that prevented him from setting the radio frequency
- after the main program started<???@#$>. Anyway, with the ability of the
- Atari to run initialization code I cooked this up for him. What happens
- is when the file gets run (it was appended onto one of the existing
- AUTORUN.SYS files), it sets up the joystick port to the frequency the
- user wants, then returns control to DOS to continue loading the other
- program(s). It's more quick & dirty then anything else, but it does
- show how to use some floating point from assembly & put up a intro
- screen. Let's see if Portal will swallow the U/L.
-