Re: Whatever happened to the KEGS updates?

[rich12345 <aiiadict@gmail.com>]

On Apr 6, 7:21 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 5) Configuration program pokes to the I/O ports to indicate
> configuration changes.  

just an idea:

instead of pokeing to I/O ports, save to a KEGS.CFG.TXT file
on the disk.

your hard drive you use to start up would have this in the
root directory...

each disk would have it's own KEGS.CFG.TXT file, so you wouldn't
have to reconfigure for different software (IE, FAST for a compiler,
NORMAL for a game, printer port set up for different wares, etc)

run your applesoft program, it sets up KEGS.CFG.TXT.  have a
command in the applesoft config program that POKES an I/O location

that I/O location would be watched by KEGS.  When KEGS sees
access to that location, it goes into the HDV, PO, DSK image
root directory, copies the KEGS.CFG.TXT file into the host
machines RAM, and uses that for configuration data.

If someone codes the KEGS part, I'll do the applesoft KEGS
configuration menu.

Rich



maybe KEGS.CFG.TXT would look like this:

SPEED = NORMAL
SLOT6 = SMARTPORT
PRINTER = EPSON
SERIAL = 300 BAUD

or should it be raw data?

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