Atari ST - 1990
Repeated Writes/Reads to TOS Logical Device
- Genre
- Hardware - Testing
- Year
- 1990
- Language
- Machine Language
- Publisher
- [no publisher]
- Controls
- Keyboard
- Distributor
- -
- Players
- —
- Developer
- Atari Corporation
- Resolution
- Low / Medium / High
- Licensed from
- -
- Programmer(s)
- Tittsler, Jim W.
- Country
- Graphic Artist(s)
- —
- Software
- English
- Game design
- —
- Box/Instructions
- English
- Musician(s)
- —
- License
- Unreleased
- Sound FX
- —
- Serial
- —
- Cover Artist(s)
- —
- ST Type
- ST, STe, TT, Falcon030 / 0.5MB
- MIDI
- —
- Version
- —
- Dump
- Download
- Number of Disks
- 1 / Double Sided / HD Installable
- Dump format
- MSA
- Protection
- —
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Found from ex-Atari employee's hard disk. Assembler sources included.
INSTRUCTIONS
;;; test.s ; ; test -- repeated writes/reads to TOS logical device ; ; mac -p -o test.prg test.s ; buffer in ST RAM ; mac -dFASTRAM -p -o testfr.prg test.s ; buffer in FAST RAM ; mac -dDEVICE=0 -p -o testflp.prg test.s ; device != 2 ; mac -dOFFSET=1 -p -o test1.prg test.s ; non-aligned xfers ; ; 15Mar89 jwt kludged together, beware the Ides ; 16Mar89 jwt added non-aligned transfers ; 08Aug89 jwt more flexibility in buffer alignment, local stack ; 10Aug89 jwt show device driver version ; 20Aug89 jwt add test for second bank of system RAM (no Malloc()!) ; 09Apr90 jwt do GetBPB() to clear MediaChange on all units, not ; just floppies (for use with standard TOS driver) ;
TRIVIA (1)
Hardware
This program trashes your hard disk.