Assmebler programmers wanted for Hack

[+Stephen Moss]

Hi folks,

I have a small problem with the STOS Basic Falcon extension in that programs compiled with it won't run on the ST for some reason. Although I could just produce two different versions of the software it would be nice to just produce one that would run on both machines.

The original author of the extension was helping me with this but we have since lost contact and all attempts to reach him at various E-Mail address have not recieved a response.

 

What I had discovered before losing contact is that the problem is with the graphics part of the extension as compiled programs using commands from the audio side are fine. The author told me that the only differences between the Audio and Video sides of the extension was that the Video side always does things on an even boundary (what ever that means) and that when video commands are used the compiler automatically adds some kind of header that checks the TOS version to see if the program is running on a Falcon.

While I can understand that he included this to prevent Falcon commands running on a non Falcon however this should really be up to the programmer to solve that problem as its difficult to do.

 

We therfore came to the conclusion that it is the TOS checking routine that is messing things up as the very start of my code sets up the error trapping and as my error trapping routine is not opperated the problems must be prior to my code being loaded/run. I know that my error trapping routine works as the uncompiled code runs perfectly which is also the reason why I beleive it is not the even boundary thing that is causing the problem as I assume this would also be applied when the uncomplied code is run.

 

Basically the compiler and graphic extension files combined come to just under 40K in size and I am hoping that someone out there can dissasemble them, remove anything concerned with checking the TOS version and reassemble them for me to try.