Re: System 6 pieces and undocumented stuff

[Sheppy <the.sheppy@gmail.com>]

On Sep 2, 5:34 pm, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:


> •     StartUpTools now knows how to start tools 35 (MIDI Synth), 37 (the
> not-complete Animation tool) and 38 (Media Control).
>
> > Has anyone seen the animation toolset?

Jim Mensch was working on that when I was at Apple; it was never
anywhere close to done. As in, I think it was designed and roughed out
but never usable for anything in particular.

> •     When loading Expressed files, the Loader no longer locks and unlocks
> all the ExpressLoad handles every time it makes a Memory Manager
> call.  Similarly, it no longer tries to allocate memory in unusable
> banks $80 through $FF.
>
> > Do emulators patch ExpressLoad to make it load Expressed files above bank $80?

Sweet16 applies a 3-byte patch to the ROM. That's all it and Bernie
do. I believe it's just a quick patch to the Memory Manager.

Sheppy