Perverted Mac-OS idea (was: Perverted DOS idea)

From: David Vohs <netsurfer_x1_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu Jun 8 17:31:07 2000

>::>Where can I find a list of INTs DOS uses? I checked a couple of
>bookstores
>::>but most of them aren't too helpful with low-level DOS.
>::
>::People have already pointed you at Ralf Brown's wonderful interrupt list
>::(which BTW is available in webified form at http://ctyme.com/rbrown.htm),
>::but just to point out the obvious: it doesn't matter! If your emulation
>is
>::accurate enough to be useful, DOS will take care of itself. You'll
>probably
>::want to provide your own BIOS though, and for that the IBM PC or AT Tech
>Ref
>::manuals are wonderful. Computer Reset used to have NOS tech ref books at
>::very good prices, don't know if that's still true or even if they're
>still
>::in business. Anyway, obviously the BIOS is your chance to substitute
>some
>::native I/O w/o having to muck with DOS itself.
>
>Well, it would be a sullied implementation. I'm thinking of having a native
>6502 IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS (and probably COMMAND.COM), so the INTs would
>need
>to be simulated by that: hence the list :-)
>
>--
>----------------------------- personal page:
>http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
> Cameron Kaiser * Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser_at_ptloma.edu
>-- Laughter is the closest distance between two people. -- Victor Borge
>-------

No way! You wouldn't want to ruin a Commodore 64 with that crap!

Hell, while you guys are at it, why don't you try to port Mac-OS, or worse
yet, MS Windows, to the Commodore 64.
____________________________________________________________
David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian.
Home page: http://www.geocities.com/netsurfer_x1/

Computer Collection:

"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, Okimate 20.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
____________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Received on Thu Jun 08 2000 - 17:31:07 BST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:33:00 BST