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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 2014 |
Reading the directory - raw mode
I might have dreamt it but.. I distinctively remember being able to control ”output mode” from the regular reading $ command. I’d rather not parse quoted strings and what not and I’d rather not read raw sectors.
I remeber being able to change output format.. |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2980 |
Quoting tlrDutch Breeze uses the utility loader IIRC. Interesting. And they encrypted the code. Guess somebody was very proud of his IRQ loader and guarding its secrets closely. Wasn't Dutch Breeze one of the first demos to load in the background?
I've first come across the utility loader with North & South. Probably, other Infragrames titles used it and the same loader as well. |
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Dano
Registered: Jul 2004
Posts: 234 |
Road to Excess had a IRQ-Loaderpart aswell. Not sure if this was the first.
That typical IRQ Loader from back in the days was it from G.I. Joe? The one with the $CC00 and $CF00 calls iirc?
What's a utility loader btw? |
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tlr
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 1790 |
Dutch breeze may have been an early loading in the background demo while doing something really meaningful.
Demos like this existed before, e.g AB which I helped integrate the above mentioned GI-Joe loader into.
Gergamygg III is using it during demo parts.
Non-demo uses as emulating the tape loading in this crack: Rambo: First Blood Part II were much earlier. |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2980 |
Quoting danoWhat's a utility loader btw? It's a rarely-used obscure feature of the drive's ROM OS. More information in these classic comp.sys.cbm posts: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.sys.cbm/|sort:d.. |
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