ncoplin_at_orbeng.com
Date: 2002-12-04 08:05:48
>> Any suggestions appreciated. The only thought I had was that the code
needs
>> to be in the Track1 Sector0 format to BOOT on all machines.
>That's the way I've done it, and my flat 128 (the machine I was using at
>the time) seemed to work fine with it.
Thanks some generic boot sector code at the end of this email, but as I
actually want the whole program to exist in the $0b00 location, how do I
make the C128 not go searching for a file on disk?
- Nick
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BOOT SECTOR EXAMPLE
$00 - CBM ;signature
$03 - $00,$10,$00,$01 ;other BOOT sector
:starts at $1000, Bank 0
:one block in size
$07 - NAME,$00 ;message "NAME",delimiter
$0c - PROGRAM,$00 ;filename,delimiter
$24 - $a2,$2b ;ldx #$2b :set pointer to start of
$26 - $a0,$0b ;ldy #$0b :line of Basic ($0b2b) and
$28 - $4c,$a5,$af ;jmp $afa5 :Jump to routine at $afa5
$2b - RUN"PROGRAM" ;line of Basic data
$36 - $00 ;zero byte delimiter
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