William Garber wrote:
> "BluPhoenyx" <bluphoenyx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:mM_ai.3036$tb6.1420@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> : Larry Stedman wrote:
> : > Bill, they're the ones on the various Apple II sites... I Googled
> : > choplifter.dsk and came up with several. That's the easiest way to
get
> : > them directly. I keep looking for a "choplifter_IIc.dsk" or some
such
> : > but no luck.
> : >
> : > I put some of the games on a 3.5" disk, but the //c balked at
booting
> : > the disk because it said no ProDos, then once I had put ProDos on,
it
> : > booted, but when I tried running any of the binary game files, the
//c
> : > responded with "NO BUFFERS" and refused to run the programs.
Perhaps it
> : > needs to run under Dos 3.3, from a 3.3 formatted diskette, which is
what
> : > I presume the 5.25" diskettes are.
> : >
> : > Anyone know what the NO BUFFERS means? Is that an OS issue or a //c
> : > issue? Is there a way of creating some buffers? :-)
> :
> :
> : This is a general error message for whenever BASIC.SYSTEM cannot load
to
> : certain memory locations. It is triggered by several things. One is
the
> : location of HIMEM which can be set in BASIC. Also BASIC.SYSTEM has a
> : routine to allocate 512 byte blocks from assembly. IIRC, this still
> : requires you to set the actual HIMEM location.
> :
> : It may also be generated when attempting to load a file into P8
> : protected ram. ProDOS uses a bitmap to know which pages of ram it can
> : use to load files into. In BASIC.SYSTEM, this is generally
$800...$9600
> : (set by HIMEM). This implies both screen ram $400..7ff and above
HIMEM.
> : Looking at the disk catalog, what is the program's load address and
length?
>
> Ah, that's it then.
>
> The Load Address is $07FD, and length is 32,016 bytes.
So one POKE to the bitmap to permit I/O to page 7 and
it should BLOAD or BRUN just fine.
-michael
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