Re: 1581 JiffyDOS Versions

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 22:42:34 -0600
Message-ID: <a4cb9fae-6e35-31b6-9d22-d200ae75f9ab_at_jbrain.com>
On 1/10/2023 7:48 PM, Jim Brain wrote:
> On 1/9/2023 6:47 PM, Rob Clarke wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Small question on JiffyDOS versions. I recently acquired a 1581 that 
>> came with JiffyDOS installed whch was labelled as v6.01. I had read 
>> from the CMD JD literature that that JD included all the Commodore 
>> firmware patches from the latest available ROM version at the time.
>>
>> After poking around in the ROM. it seems that this 1581 JD ROM does 
>> not include the SEI patch that Commodore released with the 318045-02 
>> ROM which disabled interrupts when processing the command queue. 
>> There's only 8 bytes difference between the -01 and -02 official 
>> ROMS, 3 bytes to jump to the patch code, 4 bytes for the patch code, 
>> and one byte to disable the ROM checksum check at /RESET. Details below.
>>
>> Can anyone familiar with JD versions confirm that the 1581 JD ROM did 
>> not include Commodore's patch?
>>
>> Differences below.
>>
>>
>> 	318045-01 	318045-02 	Jiffy 601
>> AF8C 	3A 	00 	3A
>> C160 	6C 	4C 	6C
>> C161 	48 	AF 	48
>> C162 	00 	C5 	00
>> C5AF 	FF 	78 	FF
>> C5B0 	FF 	6C 	FF
>> C5B1 	FF 	48 	FF
>> C5B2 	FF 	00 	FF
>>
>> Rob
>>
> I wonder if the patch was unneeded on JD?  Have you tried JD with the 
> patch?
>
> Jim
>
>
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> Jim Brain
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Any updates?

Jim

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