Re: New idea HD for C=

From: Ethan Dicks (ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 1999-09-07 16:00:27

--- Radioactive Warrior <radwar@mindspring.com> wrote:
> From: Marko Mäkelä <msmakela@cc.hut.fi>
> 
> >On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Martijn van Buul wrote:
> >
> >> "$" is a plain program file, as far as the computer is concerned.
> >
> >There are two ways of reading it (distinguished by the secondary address,
> >I think).

Yes.  The code in the drive looks at the secondary address to see how to
format the output.

> Where is the directory converted to a PRG file, in the c64 kernal? 

The code in the drive emits a loadable program stream, complete with
"line numbers" (the file size in blocks), forward line pointers, etc.

-ethan

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