Falcon & Games

[Sturm]

Found this interesting article in the french "ST Magazine" n°72. It's about Falcon and games, and they provide a listing in ASM to help fixing compatibility issues.

http://www.abandonware-magazines.org/af ... &album=oui
(from page 40 onwards)
Do you think it is useful ? (Before I try to type it)

It it the same kind of trick used by Klapauzius and others ?

[simonsunnyboy]

If it is French noone can tell xD

How about a translation to English?

[Sturm]

Noone can tell just by looking at the listing ? :p

Basically it says this program reconfigures the Falcon just before sector booting:

It installs itself at $300000 after having reconfigured the computer in order it only sees one or 2 megs ram.
Then you have to reset and execute a sector boot on a disk: this one will call the aformentioned program at $300000 which will execute the sector boot in order to launch the game, after having reconfigured the Falcon.

sorry for the poor translation, the original is quite bad written to begin with :p

[leech]

Is this similar to what programs like Backwards does? I know there are several sites where people have patched games to work on the later STs. When I first got my TT it sucked because about 80% of the software I had for it didn't work. Now a lot of it works just fine.

[mikro]

I don't see anything out of ordinary -- setting up the sound system, switching the cache off, setting up the Blitter and CPU to 8 MHz, installing its own exception vectors. The only interesting thing would be to know how exactly he is reconfiguring the PMMU and why.

[ggn]

I don't see anything out of ordinary -- setting up the sound system, switching the cache off, setting up the Blitter and CPU to 8 MHz, installing its own exception vectors. The only interesting thing would be to know how exactly he is reconfiguring the PMMU and why.

He's just moving the PMMU table at a higher point in ram so there'll be less chance of games clobbering it. As you probably know it's located at $700-$7ff area which is quite low.