Re: [ARMini-support] Acorn Mode now on download site for testing

  • From: Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:26:44 +0100

The following bytes were arranged on 6 Jul 2012 by Doug Webb :

> In message <e8d421ab52.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > HostFS seems not to be usefully functional.  I can confirm that both
> > *Create and *Access are broken, for example (the former returns a "Not
> > found" error and the latter simply does nothing).  As *Create - or
> > OS_File 7 - is run as part of the boot sequence (in !Scrap.!RunImage, to
> > be precise), this means the emulator cannot boot.
>
> !Boots here and runs OK

Bizarrely, it does here now too!  I can't imagine what a reboot could
have changed to stop it failing in those very specific manners.

> > I also couldn't get the "pressing both Windows keys" trick to work.  In
> > fact, a bit of fiddling with OS_Byte 121 confirms that the left Windows
> > key returns a value of 125, but the right one does nothing at all!

This, however, is still a problem.

If this shortcut is known not to be physically possible on some people's
keyboards, it should be changed.

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