Date   : Fri, 27 Jan 1984 23:05:00 EST
From   : Stephen C. Hill <STEVEH@mit-mc>
Subject: Making WordStar 3.3 come up faster

    I have significantly increased the speed with which
WordStar 3.3 comes up.

    First of all, I had to get rid of the silly MicroPro
advertisements.  This was accomplished by using a combination
of DDT and ZDASM.  I traced the beginning of the program,
breakpointing just after each CALL instruction until I
discovered the guilty module.  Eventually, I narrowed it down
to where I replaced the instruction located at 3CEB with a jump
relative of 3A, which branched around all of the craziness that
MicroPro put up.

    That just left getting rid of the long delay loops that
they had left in there.  I could have used the same trick of
branching around some code, but the faster fix was to change
the three delay-count bytes located at 2B0 through 2B2.  I have
changed them all to 0, and have noticed no problems of leaving
things on the screen with the Molecular MT-100 terminals.  Give
it a try with larger numbers, if your terminals have any
problems, although they probably won't.

    Someone will probably tell me that there is an option int
the WINSTALL menu, but I sure couldn't find it.