Re: IIgs Slot Scan Not Detecting Hard Drive

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Tempest <tempest@atariprotos.com> wrote:
> I've been told that if you use a real 5.25" disk controller that some
> games like Karateka and Drol will work better.  I'm not sure about this
> myself, but to me it would make sense that there might be some tiny
> difference in the IIgs IWM controller and a real 5.25" disk controller
> card that could break really picky compy protection scemes.  Then again
> I could be completely wrong, I figured it couldn't hurt to stick the
> card in there since that slot would normally have to be free for the
> 5.25" IWM controller anyway.  I'll try removing it and seeing if that
> fixes the problem.

The $c600 code is different.  On the IIgs, if you use the smartport it'll
time out and continue the slot scan.  If the boot loader expects the code
at $c600 to work a particular way, because it calls into it or copies
pieces of it, then the boot process will fail unless only "standard"
entry points are used.

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