Re: Digging Donkey Kong (for possible packing)

[Steve Nickolas <lyricalnanoha@usotsuki.hoshinet.org>]

Replying to myself because LOL STATUS.

I am understanding the program as 3 phases:

1. Bootstrap phase 1 - that loads the core routines off disk.
2. Bootstrap phase 2 - that contains the RWTS and gets the rest of the 
program going.
3. Everything else - which uses the code loaded in phase 2 to swap itself 
in and out of memory as needed.

Phases 1 and 2 are track 0 (phase 1 is the boot sector), and will 
correspond to DKONG.SYSTEM in the final version - a relocator to move the 
phase 2 code up to B600-BAFF, (BB00-BEFF will be the buffer ProDOS uses 
during file reads) and an emulation of the phase 2 code.  Phase 3 is the 
bulk of the disk image stored in a file called DKONG.DATA.

The key is, I guess, to make sure the bootstrap is emulated - to minimize 
the amount of patches necessary to DKONG.DATA - and to make sure the 
resulting files are viable.  I guess right now I need to do a boot trace, 
which is something I am really not very well-versed in...lol

-uso.