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@@ -26,18 +26,26 @@ addressed. Loaders that fail now probably do so for hard-to-diagnose reasons, or else because MEMLO is too high. Taipan loads at $2000, which should *not* be a problem for any useful Atari DOS. +I've gone to this much trouble with testing because (a) there used to +be some real issues, and (b) because inevitably, someone is going to +find a DOS or loader that can't load it. I'm going to point to this +documentation, and tell them their DOS/loader is broken, not my game. + Tested on actual hardware: - Atari DOS 2.0S: success - Atari DOS 2.5: success - MyDOS 4.55 (floppy): success - MyDOS 4.55 (with MyIDE): success -- SpartaDOS X: success, with "X" command +- SpartaDOS X: success, with "X" command (works with MIO enabled too) - SIDE2: success (older build though, need to get results for latest) - APE loader: success (older build, need newer results) - DOS XL 2.30: success - SpartaDOS 3.2dx: fails to load. This is 3.2d patched for the XF551 drive. - SpartaDOS 3.2g/3.2gx with MIO: failure. +- Micro SpartaDOS 2.2 and 4.6: success. +- RealDOS build 0032: success (even with MIO active and TDLINE running!) +- Atarimax flash cart EXE loader: success Tested on emulators: @@ -49,6 +57,7 @@ Tested on emulators: - SpartaDOS 1.1 on atari800: success (with STANDARD.SYS kernel). I doubt that exiting the game will work, as MEMLO is $2300 on this DOS. +- BeweDOS 1.30: success. - MyPicoDOS 4.03 on atari800: success - Fenders 3-sector loader on atari800: success - Atari DOS 3.0 on atari800: success @@ -62,16 +71,5 @@ Note: all the oddball DOSes at the end of the list are ones I really used to run at various different times, in the old days. All the tests with atari800, other than the direct xex loading, were done with SIO patching disabled. On some of the DOSes, exiting the program may not work -(answering N to the "play again?" prompt); I didn't test this with most -of them. - -Untested (waiting on results from testers): - -- Atarimax flash cart EXE loader. An older Taipan build failed due - to the loader leaving RAMTOP set to $a0. My first attempt to fix this - worked, but broke loading with MyIDE and SDX. The current code *should* - be fine, but I have yet to hear back from my tester about it. - -Untested, but worth looking at: - -- RealDOS, BeweDOS? probably same results as Sparta 3... +(answering N to the "play again?" prompt); I didn't test this with all +of them. It at least works on 2.0S, 2.5, MyDOS, and SpartaDOS X. |