Re: Loadable keyboards

[stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz (Petr Stehlik)]

On Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:08:30 +0200, Michael Schwingen wrote:

MS>Only up to TOS 2.06.
MS>
MS>"New code as of 5/92: in the all-countries cases (TT, SPARROW) we use
MS> the new variables salttran/saltshif/saltcl as associative lookup tables
MS> instead of doing the alt-key translation job in code."

:-O SPARROW? It must be the codename for Falcon. That sounds like a
developer documentation of TOS 4.x! :-O

MS>I am not sure if this was documented by Atari (I don't have a compendium

It definitely was not documented anywhere AFAIK.

MS>here), and if you should use this feature to load new keytables - but I do
MS>not see much danger in using it as long as you are sure that the TOS version
MS>you are on does have these tables.

This is very nice and I will incorporate it into Clocky. But I would
need to know which versions of operating system implements this. General
question about TOS versions - is 2.06 really older than any of 3.x line?
I am not sure. I guess the TOS was developed like this

3.01 (TT), then Atari decided to make a "light" version of TT called
MegaSTE, then created TOS 3.05 and 2.05 (I think they are about the
same) and later, to fix all bugs created TOS 3.06 and 2.06.

So how to check easily which version implements that? Will I have to
disassemble all TOS versions? I don't have them all, anyway.

Petr
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