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Re: Random musings
Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
I suppose I'm still lame, but you have to crawl before you run I
suppose. I've finally cracked an Apple ][ program even if it was a real
small one. :) It's nothing important, but if it's useful to anyone to
put the 13-sector booter onto a DOS disk, since after all BOOT13 doesn't
work for everything as someone else here said... I don't care. The
BASIC loader is not included but it didn't have to be, I had already
whipped one up, it's not as good as loader.obj0 but it works.
I need to learn about this stuff.
It sounds like you're well on your way in the lore of boot tracing!
A subset of game enthusiasts came to see the solving of the game's
protection puzzles as more interesting and rewarding than the game
itself. ;-)
What I want to do with Hard Hat Mack is the same thing on a more complex
scale. Nonstandard loader loads memory contents and jumps to set
location, same damn thing I did with BASICS. I can understand why there
used to be fastloaders, hell, DOS 3.3 is slow as mud, but with STOS,
David-DOS, Diversi-DOS, ProntoDOS, ESDOS, that's a moot point anymore.
And with UniDOS and ProDOS, it's just a pain in the ass. >_<
Speed wasn't the only motivation--many loaders were there to
obfuscate the boot sequence, too.
I was always little more than a l33ch, never did anything for the
community. I'm hoping to make some use of the little I know of the
Apple. (Okay, an emulator is easy enough. A DOS? Cracking programs?
Cloning programs? That's all something much harder to pull off.)
Way to go! The adventure begins... ;-)
-michael
Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's!
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