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flashjazzcat

Member Since 23 Nov 2008
OFFLINE Last Active Today, 8:27 AM

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In Topic: Source (or explanation) of Autorun.Sys for Basic?

Today, 8:30 AM

I Googled "Atari autorun.sys basic" and the wiki article was top of the second page of results. :)

In Topic: correct pronounciation of A8 CPU

Today, 8:28 AM

View PostR6502A, on Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:53 AM, said:

Agreed! Some ignorant people in the UK do use the argument that it's haitch because it has an 'H' sound. My retort is: would you pronounce the letter 'W' as wouble-wu? :-D

Quite so. Investigation of this issue led me to Stephen Fry's forum (the overwhelming concensus being in favour of "aitch", BTW). While both pronunciations may be technically acceptable, only one is awful. :)

In Topic: Whats a good system to start with?

Today, 8:24 AM

View Postsloopy, on Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:52 AM, said:

I have put Chroma/Luma output in an XEGS, used the two RCA jacks that are already on it for Chroma and Luma instead of Composite and Audio, and then added a 1/8" stereo jack for sound (machine was also fitted with dual pokeys). and ran great... Only issue was there was no composite output so a Chroma/Luma or S-Video capable monitor was required unless you ran RF...

I put a DIN-5 where the RF mod used to be and kept the composite / audio RCAs alongside chroma / luma / audio on the DIN.

In Topic: Source (or explanation) of Autorun.Sys for Basic?

Today, 6:30 AM

Here are a couple with commented source code. The basic (no pun intended) idea is to intercept the CIO when the "Ready" prompt is printed or when BASIC asks the screen editor for a new line. It's probably possible to use "forced read" mode, but I think the idea in these examples is that the CIO get byte routine is temporarily redefined to simply pull the name of the BASIC program a character at a time and return it to the screen editor, so BASIC thinks the user actually typed it.

In Topic: correct pronounciation of A8 CPU

Today, 6:10 AM

It's aitch.

Does anyone actually refer to the UK health service as the En-Haitch-Ess? I rest my case. :)

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