Date : Thu, 18 Apr 1991 13:58:45 GMT
From : agate!bionet!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!ipso!dave@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: Help on overlays etc
Hello all. Can someone give me a brief guide to writing overlays and
TSR-like programs for CP/M? None of the books I have mention the topic,
and user groups died out long ago... The system is a reasonably standard
CP/M 2.2 system (ZCPR-2 I think), running on a Z80 platform - the Australian
"Microbee", if you've ever heard of it. Nice little box...
I gather one has to fiddle the top-of-memory pointer after relocating oneself
for the former, and trapping the keyboard-request jump for the latter, but
there my knowledge runs out. What other things should I have to do?
Since I'm stuck with twin floppies (no provision for a disk without EXTENSIVE
modification), I'd like to use the 64Kb RAM disk that comes with the BIOS as
a small (but fast) paging area of sorts.
Thanks.
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Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC
dave@ips.OZ.AU ...munnari!ips.OZ.AU!dave