Date : Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:50:49 +0000 (GMT)
From : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: BBC FPGA Boots to BASIC... almost...
In article <47B50A2E.4080508@...>,
Mark McDougall <msmcdoug@...> wrote:
> *FINALLY* I get to see "BBC Computer 16K" and "BASIC".
>
> Can I assume the latter is printed by the BASIC ROM? Or is it printed by
> the MOS ROM when it finds a paged ROM?
The MOS prints it out (it's the ROM title string).
The only other thing between that and JMP&8000 is a check of the Tube status
bit (in which case it would try to call the Tube code instead). The Tube
presence is detected earlier on by a write to &FEE0, so make sure that
location returns 0,
Sprow.