Atari 800 floating point routines, legal?

[calamari]

I am thinking of adding floating point support to 5200BAS using the Atari 800 ROM routines, since they are already written up and pretty much ready to go (A few changes would have to be made to relocate them to 5200 ROM space).

 

But, would we be able to use them in our games or do you think Atari would challenge that? I could get around any restrictions for the compiler by making the person compiling get the ROM and I could read the info from there, but it doesn't really matter if people aren't able to distribute their compiled game.

 

I'm guessing that it all comes down to whether the Atari system ROMs were released to the public. Does anyone know if this is the case?

 

Thanks,

calamari

[mos6507]

The Atari floating point routines are notoriously slow. If I were you I'd rewrite them.