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║ TR-DOS SECRETS. ║
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(C) Repnikov Yuri (KVANT SOFT),
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Volzhsky, 1996.
Yes, we haven't seen this one for a long time
section. There wasn't enough material. But now
I gained wisdom and accumulated information.
In general, the topic of today's article will be:
TURBO LOADER, or how to remake
it in TURBO SAVER.
I think that today's topic is quite ac-
toilet, because now almost everything
make their INTROs with TURBO LOADERs. But
many (if not all) use
TITUS's version, at least with
it was the first time I noticed this thing myself
I inserted it into all my bootloaders.
BUT! He hasthere is one big drawback
- hangs when there is an error. This is due to the fact
that in TR-DOS in that subsection the chain is triggered
DI...HALT on error. And as we know,
This situation is fatal for work.
I myself didn’t notice this for a long time, until one
I haven't recorded one toy for ALEX NORMAN once in a while
diskette diskette with this TURBO LOADER. A
since he and I have a little disagreement
disk drives, then the game froze when it jammed
ruzke. He brought it to me and said that
The game doesn't work. I downloaded it from myself - and
everything is OK, everything works. That's when we
STS discovered this glitch. Having learned about this
GDM SOFT flatly refused to use
this bullshit in their programs. And then I wrote
normal, non-buggy TURBO LOADER. But
now he began to borrow 2-3 times more
memory.
Then I, experimenting with defenses,
or rather, I started trying to copy protections
make him write it down. After digging around
I forced STS to write both the first and
second loaders. At the same time, also forcing them
work with any (current) drive, so
how that version only worked with "A".
So, I don’t publish the text of the programs
I will, since the sources are in MASM format
You will find it in the appendix to the magazine. About that
which one is which, said in Russian
at the beginning of each listing.
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