Author: tIn (p50866B2C.dip.t-dialin.net)
Date: 02-25-2002 21:14
Hy Baldrick!
First of all thanks for the info - that definitely does sound like a very nice tool and I surely will try to get hold of it.
Nonetheless this tool will only work for a TOS-formatted Disk.
Maybe it's best to use an example here: if I'd take e.g. the Phaleon Demo (or European, or Union, or the Vodka demo... the list is endless), VUK's tool would not be able to run this Diskimage as they are _not_ TOS formatted (e.g. they have no FAT etc.). What VUK supposedly does is hooking into TOS routines routing fread() etc. calls to his Ramdisk routines. Actually neither of the above Demos do call a single TRAP (and if they do, they changed the vectors for own purposes), they use completly own loading routines - his ramdisk would never be called, in fact it would rather be erased (some demos check the memory amount in your machine by simply erasing the memory until a bus error appears).
As you can see, VOK's tool will work for some Games/Demos - but not for those "taking control" over the hardware.
But thanks anyway for the tip, I will try to get in contact with VUK,
tIn.
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