Re: Kyan Pascal - new insights

[hochstrasse@urz.unibas.ch]

In article <mark-210793091540@128.157.9.145>, mark@pokey.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning) writes:
> a bit.  Do you remember if Kyan Pascal turned off the BASIC stuff in rom?
> If not, then there is a simple way in which to run another program.  You
> just load everything into the input buffer and call the basic interpreter.
> This, in turn, will do whatever it is you want it to do (ie: load, run,
> brun, bload, etc....).
Nah, it won't work like this, because the Applesoft file I/O routines in
ROM can only handle Audio Cassette 'Files'. The Applesoft Disk stuff in
Prodos is contained in BASIC.SYSTEM, which isn't loaded when the KIX en-
vironment is running. Well you _could_ perhaps load BASIC.SYSTEM from KIX
(remember, it's a Prodos SYSTEM-file launcher) and use the BASIC.SYSTEM's
global page at $BE00 to communicate with it. But I think, RAM is too limited
for such an approach (and it's a waste of memory). There is/was an addidional
package for Kyan with all sort of File I/O routines ready for use, perhaps
that's what you need.

--Urs [sorry, no sig at the moment...]