Date   : Wed, 25 May 2005 00:41:36 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: 8-bit IDE i/f debugging

> Annoyingly, every AForm program I've tried doesn't like having a
> hard drive present. I've ended up having to *CONFIG. FLOPPY and
> then run it from the network.
 
Grrr.... Horrible, horrible AForm!!!!
 
Not only does it self-relocate itself in memory...
 
Not only is it semi-compressed and it decompresses itself into
memory...
 
Not only does it do IF OS<>Master THEN Abort when it doesn't need
to...
 
It directly tramples directly on top of the hard drive hardware
instead of using the proper system calls to see if a hard drive is
present. It only does this so that '*AForm 0' is aborted if a hard
drive is present, so the user has to use '*AForm 4'.
 
There's a defined ADFS system call to find out if there's a hard
drive present!!!!
 
Grrrrr.....
 
I think I'll do what I did with the HADFS and DFS formatters and
just sit down and write one from scratch.
 
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