reifsnyderb Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Is there any downside to modifying the OS so that you have to hold the Option key down to boot into BASIC? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 None that I am aware of except people who are used to holding option will think it's broken 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 1 hour ago, reifsnyderb said: Is there any downside to modifying the OS so that you have to hold the Option key down to boot into BASIC? No - ever since I got my 1st 32-in-1 OS, I've used "reverse-basic" ROMs. I hated the decision to default to BASIC being on when so much required it to be off. Even when I was still coding natively, I had long moves past the built in BASIC anyhow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 only when you put your 600xl with the reverse basic mod in storage for 6 years, forget you did the mod and then wonder why nothing loads 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TZJB Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 None really. I regularly use the v3_85_hi_op_ma.rom previously published with this feature. It is very useful as most programs run without BASIC enabled anyway. A V4 would be welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peri Noid Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 18 hours ago, reifsnyderb said: Is there any downside to modifying the OS so that you have to hold the Option key down to boot into BASIC? There are some very rare productions that compute some checksums of ROM to detect if they run on a certain OS version. But it's just a theoretical problem - I only heard of them but never met any. In practice - it should be no problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 I have run into a few things that will not run because of this, but it's very uncommon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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