Fw: [Atari800-users] Re: monitor.[ch]

[Nathan H. <ma...@ma...>]

Don't you just hate it when you forget to change the To: field? :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Hartwell" <ma...@ma...>
To: "Janka Gerhard" <ger...@si...>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 3:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Atari800-users] Re: monitor.[ch]


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janka Gerhard" <ger...@si...>
> To: <a8...@so...>; <ata...@li...>
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 3:34 AM
> Subject: [Atari800-users] Re: monitor.[ch]
>
>
> > As I pointed out before, the ATR header definition in Atari800
> > does not match the original definition by Nick Kennedy. I once
> > tried to write a definition that would work with either APE and
> > SIO2PC ATRs but somehow never succeeded in getting it in the
> > official source. But basically, except the meaning of some header
> > bytes the two ATR variances are the same.
> > In contrary to that, what you propose is a different format and
> > I would think it much cleaner to name it that way to avoid confusion.
> > How about AHI ( Atari Harddisk Image ) ;-) and at least a different
> > 'magic number' in the first two header bytes too ?
> >
> > Gerhard
>
> AHI could work.  The header could simple use AHI as the first 3 bytes.
> That'd still leave room for all the same information in the ATR header
with
> a few bytes left over.
>
> >
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