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Re: How do I boot DOS from the monitor?
- Subject: Re: How do I boot DOS from the monitor?
- From: xorxif <previous@ddreses.were.invalid>
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 07:03:05 GMT
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The way I always got back to the "]" prompt from the "*" prompt was by
typing:
3D0G
Beware that if the vector in $03DO has been altered, it will beep and
crash back to the monitor. Even if it doesn't, sometimes DOS has been
overwritten and typing things like CATALOG will give a syntax error or
crash to monitor.
It happened to me a lot while playing games, or rather trying to play
another game without rebooting (rebooting took too long for an impatient
kid like me.) All too often I would get the ] prompt and type CATALOG,
only to get a syntax error, or worse, a beep-crash into the monitor. I
remember when I was younger I always wanted to know what those numbers
meant when it would beep at me. Years later now I'm (finally) reading a
book on Apple II assembly.
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- xorxif