Re: Accelerating the Disk II?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

mkelsey@spam.eecs.wsu.edu writes ...
> 
> In article <350F8B04.9415195A@swbell.net>,
>         Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> writes:
> > mkelsey@spam.eecs.wsu.edu writes ...
> >>
> >
> >      It sounds like Wings of Fury installed a faster DOS and changed
> > some hooks to BASIC.
> >
> 
> That may have been possible, but then why would it have accelerated
> the load of Serpentine?  Serpentine used quarter tracks (like Carmen
> Sandiego) with a proprietary disk header.  Maybe the routine had
> some backward compatibility too.  I find it odd that it would hold
> so many protected formats in one disk routine, and that it would also
> read off Serpentine's boot sector and still continue to accelerate.
>

     Whatever DOS and whatever BASIC hooks may have been installed by
Wings' do not necessarily have to know anything about Serpentine. Boot
sectors (and other sectors) may be readable by the speeded DOS, enough
of Serpentine's DOS and/or protection modifications may have been
installed, ... . There are many possible scenarios when you boot a
protected diskette followed by, essentially, a PR#6.

    

Rubywand