Date   : Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:26:38 +0000 (GMT)
From   : gARetH baBB <hick.bbc@...>
Subject: Re: NFS 3.60 ROM and the Electron

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Sprow wrote:

> assumption that you don't plug a Tube in.Did the Tube registers move on the
> Electron does anyone know? Or was it mainly the ULA area that shuffled?

FExx is entirely ULA, you can't do anything else with it.

The TUBE on the Electron is at FCEx.

> I'd be seriously impressed if an entire FS and Tube code fitted into 8k.

Except NFS isn't really an entire FS - 80% of the work is done by the file
server - and the Tube code isn't really that big.

I remember rewriting the Plus 1 ROM and fitting everything what was in the
Plus 1 already expanded a bit, loads of random stuff for sideways RAM etc.
and the Tube code into 8k easily.

> *if* Econet was available for the Elk it would more likely be an ANFS
> flavour,

Disagree - plus the pictures on 8bs of a commercial Econet board for the
Electron looks like it's dated 1985, the Master wasn't released until 86.