Re: PET 2001 Fix....WAS: Will pay good money for NON working PET 2001 motherboard.

From: William Levak <wlevak_at_sdf.lonestar.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:12:39 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0911270010080.24837@sdf.lonestar.org>
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Groepaz wrote:

> On Freitag 27 November 2009, William Levak wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Anders Carlsson wrote:
>>> Speaking of which, I've read Microsoft made Commodore include the
>>> copyright notice as one of the conditions for licensing Microsoft's Amiga
>>> Basic.
>>
>> On the first version of PET Basic you cannot PEEK the Basic ROMs.  You
>> always get 0.  Supposedly this was a restriction imposed by Microsoft.
>
> haha is that true really? sounds like a very stupid and useless attempt to
> protect them =)

Yes, it's true, and yes, it's stupid and useless.  It only takes a 6 byte 
routine poked into memory to get around it.

wlevak@sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

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