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This is a little program I have written some months ago, it is a hack to
gemdos to speed up the search for free clusters on hard disk partitions.
I have menitioned this patch in this newsgroup some weeks ago and many people
were interested in getting a copy. But the old version of FATSPEED failed
installation when the early US roms are used. Now I have rewritten the
installation procedure to make it more rom independent. It now installs
correctly in all rom versions I know of ( 85/11/20, 86/2/6, 87/4/22 ).
It is tested with the 86/2/6 and 87/4/22 roms. It *should* work with the
other versions, too.
FATSPEED does not contain any code from Atari's roms, all needed stuff is
copied out of your roms and modified. Of course there may be programs which
break with this sort of gemdos modification. It is intended as a temporary
fix to the gemdos bug of slow fat searching, and works for my purpose.
If it also does for yours, you're welcome. When Atari's new roms will be out,
there will be no more need for FATSPEED ( unless, my routine is faster than
Atari's :-)
The source is available upon request, but it is not very well documented and
may be compiler dependent. And it does only contain the replacement procedures
and the installation code with some rom address offsets. No description of
rom code. And I am not willing to write a real documentation for it.
Enjoy !
- Uli -
Uli Kuebler
University of Kaiserslautern
West-Germany
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