Re: 1581 JiffyDOS Versions

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 19:48:48 -0600
Message-ID: <816f1e00-e986-eeee-7b37-c1c31a1cfb88_at_jbrain.com>
On 1/9/2023 6:47 PM, Rob Clarke wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Small question on JiffyDOS versions. I recently acquired a 1581 that 
> came with JiffyDOS installed whch was labelled as v6.01. I had read 
> from the CMD JD literature that that JD included all the Commodore 
> firmware patches from the latest available ROM version at the time.
>
> After poking around in the ROM. it seems that this 1581 JD ROM does 
> not include the SEI patch that Commodore released with the 318045-02 
> ROM which disabled interrupts when processing the command queue. 
> There's only 8 bytes difference between the -01 and -02 official ROMS, 
> 3 bytes to jump to the patch code, 4 bytes for the patch code, and one 
> byte to disable the ROM checksum check at /RESET. Details below.
>
> Can anyone familiar with JD versions confirm that the 1581 JD ROM did 
> not include Commodore's patch?
>
> Differences below.
>
>
> 	318045-01 	318045-02 	Jiffy 601
> AF8C 	3A 	00 	3A
> C160 	6C 	4C 	6C
> C161 	48 	AF 	48
> C162 	00 	C5 	00
> C5AF 	FF 	78 	FF
> C5B0 	FF 	6C 	FF
> C5B1 	FF 	48 	FF
> C5B2 	FF 	00 	FF
>
> Rob
>
I wonder if the patch was unneeded on JD?  Have you tried JD with the patch?

Jim


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