Terminator (Schwarzi) had Atari XL/XE built in

[Gury]

Interesting. The machines, which decided to destroy people in 2029, sent Terminator to kill Sarah Connor and her not yet born/existing child. And guess what... Terminator had 6502 chip build in, and more precisely, Atari XL/XE chip parts. When the Sarah and protector run from Terminator, Schwarz's display shows listing below. It does something with a disk operation and the name VTOC (Volume Table Of Contents) is used, which is a specific Atari XL/XE name (true?). On other computers they call it FAT (File Allocation Table). The article about this appeared in Mega Magazine - http://www.pokey.nl/xoops/modules/megazine...le&artid=90

 

In Terminator's display there were many 6502 assembly excerpts. Waw, 6502 is processor of the future!!!

 

8 ****************************

9

10 ORG $4000

11 A1 = $3C

12 A2 = $3E

13 A4 = $42

14 ALLMOVE = $C311

15

16 **************************

17 * SETUP-move data for VTOC

18 * and catalog to a????? at

19 * 8000-B3FF (pseudo trk 11

20 * 0-3)

21 **************************

22 SETUP LDA #

23 STA A1

24 LDA #>VTOC

25 STA A1+1

26 LDA #

27 STA A2

28 LDA #>END

29 STA A2+1

30 LDA #$00

31 STA A4

32 LDA #$80

33 STA A4+1

34 SEC

35 JMP ALLMOVE

Edited January 25, 2007 by Gury

[jaybird3rd]

Hmmm ... someone had better tell IMDB then ... according to their "Trivia" section, it's from the Apple ][ OS:

Shots through the Terminator's vision shows a dump of the ROM assembler code for the Apple II operation system. If you own an Apple II, enter at the basic prompt: ] call -151 * p This will give you the terminator view. Other code visible is written in COBOL.

[Goochman]

I remeber alot of folks claiming it was Apple II stuff as well back then which made sense since APple seemed to have a better reputation in the film industry (as is today )

[dwhyte]

Hmmm ... someone had better tell IMDB then ... according to their "Trivia" section, it's from the Apple ][ OS:

Shots through the Terminator's vision shows a dump of the ROM assembler code for the Apple II operation system. If you own an Apple II, enter at the basic prompt: ] call -151 * p This will give you the terminator view. Other code visible is written in COBOL.

If I remember right, wasn't the monitor engaged by typing CALL -141 as apposed to CALL-151?

[deathtrappomegranate]

The listing must be from Nibble magazine.

 

I just checked the movie, and the listing even had the "Key Perfect" checksum that Nibble used to use. Definitely Apple code.

[Rybags]

+1 Apple

 

And VTOC is not just an Apple/Atari specific acronym.

 

IBMs mainframe OS's have used it for decades.

 

Although, in Atari's case, VTOC usually just refers to the sector-allocation bitmap, not the actual sectors carrying filename information.

[analmux]

Anyway I'm rather sure (unfortunately ) that it's not atari code

 

look at the details:

 

10 ORG $4000

 

it's not usual to start a program at that address for common atari executables

 

19 * 8000-B3FF (pseudo trk 11

 

this area of 13kbytes is often overlapped by Basic ROM

 

14 ALLMOVE = $C311
35 JMP ALLMOVE

 

as far as I know there is no subroutine starting at that point in the ROM part of Atari's OS.

 

and, as VTOC is a DOS term, we all know that the ATARI's standard OS does not contain a DOS.

[Gregory DG]

Bender from Futurama also runs on a 6502.

[Schmutzpuppe]

Anyway I'm rather sure (unfortunately ) that it's not atari code

However 6502 is cool enough