Msg: 7040 *Conference*
04-01-97 16:29:52
From: RON WIESEN
To : RICHARD HANSON
Subj: ROM2 DEVELOPER VERSION - THANKS
Got the ROM2 Rick and read the addendum sheets about differences from regular ROM2. Guess the developer version came later. Not used the ROM yet, still getting familiar with the differences. On a scale of 10, with 5 being no net advantage over feature set of the regular version, it looks like a 7. Disk access a definite plus, sorry to see some features go but that's tradeoffs in a 32K ROM where there's lot'sa good stuff packed. Glad to see the CALL911 is kept. I like that... easy to remember... associated with an emergency which sometimes is where ROM2 helps. Got CALL911 in a function key so I don't need to remember it, but I still remember it. Function key set by a program I made some time back that I will someday upload here. Haven't put it here yet because it finds out what option ROM if any is present and defines a function key as befits the particular ROM. Since you recently sold me UR-II and now gave me developer version of ROM2, I can add them to the list of IDs of SuperROM and regular ROM2. Got a fixed program size and not yet grown it to max with ROM IDs. Program is another "use once & no memory required" type I love so well. This one leaves "stuff" in the BASIC F-key area before it quits - the stuff provides "CR/LF CR-only toggles from warm keys for TELCOM incoming and outgoing and for LPT port. The stuff is coded so it still looks and acts like normal F-key string definitions, except all are upper case. Defines all F1 to F6 and F8 as: FILE LOAD SAVE RUN LIST EDIT MENU F7 is definition varies based on what ROM is in the option ROM socket. ROM2 for example leaves F7 looking like "Rom2" but when pressed it injects "CALL911". It's a m/l prog: LFKYR1.CO and LFKYR2.CO for M100 and M200. It also defines F7 in TELCOM for FILES and Free Mem display. TELCOM F6 is defined as a key that "strikes" a chord formed by CTRL, SHIFT, and GRPH keys. The "3-note" chord that the user "strikes" sets CR/LF or CR-only treatment for respectively LPT output, TELCOM outgoing, and TELCOM incoming. The residual "stuff" LFKYR leaves provides all functions. One runs LFKYR just to get the "stuff" installed permenantly - afterwards LFKYR may be Killed. Arranging the "stuff" to simultaneously look/act as normal BASIC F-key sequences, execute as instructions invoked via warm key strikes, and in one case serve yet a third purpose is where careful planning paid off. And to boot, no HIMEM requirement to run LFKYR.CO or to use the functional "stuff" it leaves behind. If I say so myself, this is a 9 in a scale where 10 is "nifty magic" (Ron's arm breaks from too vigorous patting of his back). Anyway, thanks for the new ROM2.