Scorpion

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Sunday November 09 1997 04:37, Vsevolod Potapov ─── All:

VP> Thanks for the help with the pipe, and now another question. how to reconfigure the
VP> subroutine for calling a shadow worker via NMI in order to slip your program?
There are several ways... Starting with interception _before_ the execution of the monitor,
and ending with interception _after_ the start of the monitor operation... But on different
versions of the monitor the addresses are always different, and it is necessary do search/setup.
VP> I want to try to add STS and a couple of other crap.
Why STS? Why don't you like the powerful native monitor?
VP> and also - does anyone have a program (forgot the name) that allows you to load several programs into Scorp's
VP> memory and switch between them using Magic
VP>?
MagOS. “Several” is a very strong word. Maximum two or three, and then
if only one of them requires 128K. If there is more than one, there will be one. And
in itself, all this is buggy... Although, if you get used to it, then sometimes you can
reap benefits.

Good luck! Evgeny.

■ The night is shorter than the day... The day will kill me... The world of illusions burns down in it. (C) Aria.

>VP> and also - does anyone have a program (forgot the name) that allows you to load several programs into Scorp's
VP> memory and switch between them using Magic
>VP> ?
> MagOS. “Several” is a very strong word. Maximum two or three and then
>if only one of them requires 128K. If there is more than one, there will be one. And
>all of this in itself is buggy... Although, if you get used to it, sometimes you can
>get some benefit.

EM> Why STS? Why don’t you like this powerful native monitor?
Nope, it doesn’t track everything correctly :(
EM> MagOS. “Several” is a very strong word. Maximum two or three and
EM> then, if only one of them requires 128K. If more than one - one and
EM> will be. And all this in itself is buggy... Although, if get used to it,
It's buggy!?!?!? Yes, it doesn't work at all ;)

EM> then sometimes you can benefit.
And the benefit I got was this: interception of the shadow service!!!
The search is carried out by itself, all that remains is to come up with a boot disk.
Installing your own programs is a pleasure ;)

With respect,
Igor
May he be with you Schwartz!

>>VP> them ?
>> MagOS. “Several” is a very strong word. Maximum two or three and then
>> if only one of them requires 128K. If there is more than one, there will be one. And
>> in itself, all this is buggy... Although, if you get used to it, then sometimes you can
>> benefit.
VP> it seemed to me that I was using it. and it seemed to me that it was convenient for me and
VP> needed, but I see that you know better.... excuse me....
No wonder... :))) You probably used 48 programs for it? For these it is just right.

EM>> Why STS? Why don't you like the powerful native monitor?
IB> Nope, it doesn't track everything correctly :(
Yeah, but compared to STS... IMHO - no competition. Mine (version 2.3j)
is a little buggy only with the R register during step-by-step tracing and, "not catching"
IM2 interrupts, and perhaps that's all... Well, except that not all undocumented
commands...
EM>> MagOS. "Several" is a very strong word. Maximum two or three and
EM>> then, if only one of them requires 128K. If more than one - one and
EM>> there will be. It's all buggy... Although, if you get used to it,
IB> It's buggy!?!?!? Yes, it doesn't work at all ;)
No, I managed to get it to work...
EM>> then sometimes you can get some benefit.
IB> And I got the following benefit: interception of the shadow service!!!
IB> The search is done by itself, all that remains is to come up with a boot disk.
IB> Installing your own programs is a pleasure ;)
No, well, that goes without saying. :))) Somehow I somehow typed text from a picture
(something like a “manual text recognizer” :))). Well, I (observing the anti-glitch-MagOs-security rules) managed to stuff a simple 48th text editor and a 48th image viewer into Magos. Everything. I didn’t succeed in anything else from this “gadget”knock out.

MagOS works reliably and without glitches "V6.3 E" (a year ago
it worked, at least ;).
And if you continue to use debug
versions :-p (6.3, 6.3a, 6.3b, 6.3c, 6.3d) (like the one that was recently
thrown into the echo, or like the one hard-wired into the Scorpion-a ROM), then you will
slowly go berserk from the received glitches ;).

StarSoft of Phantasy
Zx-NET: 0146/2
C...@DATANET.EE

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With best wishes,

StarSoft&ZOOL00K of PHANTASY

Sunday November 16 1997 07:06, Vlad Sobolev ─── All:

VS> MagOS works reliably and without glitches "V6.3 E" (a year ago
VS> worked, at least ;).
VS> And if you continue to use debug
VS> versions :-p (6.3, 6.3a, 6.3b, 6.3c, 6.3d) (like the one that recently
VS> was thrown into the echo, or like the one hardwired into the Scorpion-a ROM),
What other debugging ones?????? Inforcom sold it to me as “the newest and most complete.” Although, from these ... you can expect everything.
VS> you will slowly go wild from the glitches you receive ;).
No, if you drink beer before that, maybe 2-3 bottles of Zhigulevsky, then everything
is normal. ;)))

I went through this a long time ago, picking apart ZXFORMAT, where there was a joke for the shadow one.

C u l8r,
Dmitry aka ZDW.