[Coco] HDBDOS - RETRIEVE FIXED!!

Tormod Volden lists.tormod at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 18:20:03 EST 2015


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Robert Gault  wrote:
> Tormod Volden wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>> Or... unless the HDB-DOS code is changed to not require hardcoded code
>> locations in the middle. A jump table at $9930? What is this about?
>> Can somebody please tell me what is using this jump table? Are there
>> third party applications expecting to jump in here? Is this table
>> common among various DOS implementations?
>>
>> Tormod
>>
>
> This jump table was inherited from RGB Computer Systems' RGBDOS and is
> specific to RGBDOS/HDBDOS. It permits easy user access to some HDBDOS
> specific command routines. When I wrote a RAM disk routine (which I thought
> was on the Cloud-9 site), I needed to use this jump table.

Thanks for the explanation. We should make a note about this in the
source code. Can somebody please locate this RAM disk routine?

Tormod


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