Re: Minor C65 woes -- advice.

Hello!

Bo Zimmerman wrote:

> My rom rev is the 910624 binary I have on the ftp site.  With this rom
> rev, I get compatibility with a few original demos, the ability to type
> in programs and run them, and functional use of my ram expansion.  The
> downside is that my main drive is completely unreliable -- I get
> frequent file not found and drive not ready errors.  I always figured
> this was a hardware problem, but keep reading.

I remember playing with ROMs long time ago. My memory is vague but from
what I recall:

* The oldest revision (which was originally in my machine) worked well
with the drive, but several BASIC commands were not implemented.

* A middle revision (sorry, cannot remember which) caused drive errors
(especially when writing - trying to write anything would destroy data
on the disk).

* The newest revision worked well with the drive again, but there were
indeed problems with entering BASIC commands.

Finally I went back to the earliest revision because it was least
problematic when working a lot with the drive, which I was doing a lot.

I haven't tested all the revision back then, and I haven't tested them
with the RAM expansion, but generally my results look similar to yours.

Regards,
Michau.

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