Re: Fast or direct load from disk.

[Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 22 fév, 21:22, Charlie <charlieD...@verEYEzon.net> wrote:
> On 2/22/2012 11:49 AM, Egan Ford wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
>
> > I am looking for any code or suggestions on how to load a single
> > binary to a specific address and execute it directly from disk
> > (booting required) without DOS or ProDOS loading first.
>
> > I've seen some games load very fast.  Is there a general method for
> > doing this floating around?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> I believe you can put a binary on track 0 sector 0 and it will load to
> $800 upon booting the disk. It will then jump to $801 and execute the
> code.  The byte at $800 tells the boot code how many sectors to load up
> to 16, I think.
> No DOS is involved.
>
> Charlie

You need the Accolade boot. In a single sector at $800. It uses the
disk II controller code to load sectors and also the move arm routine
and that was enough.

That was rendered popular by Tom E. Hawk to sign his cracks.

Antoine