Date   : Sun, 07 Nov 1999 15:04:15 +0000
From   : "B.E.Newsam" <ben@...>
Subject: Re: How do you autorun a program from ROM?

In message <38257EC1.4370B55D@...>, Chris Richardson
<chris@...> writes
>>Another tech question: is it possible to have a program on EPROM that >runs as 
>soon as you start the BBC (ie, just switch it on without having >to enter any 
>keyboard command)?

There are a couple of ways you can achieve this kind of thing. Bit 3 of
the "keyboard links", also settable temporarily with *fx255, reverses
the actions of BREAK and SHIFT/BREAK, so you can run a !Boot file on
switching on. It is also possible to put runnable files in EPROM, using
the ROM filing system, which is similar to the tape filing system
(serial access only) and rather slow, and not trivial.
-- 
Beń