Correct way of quitting from an Atom program....

[Prime]

Hi all,

In porting the System disk utilities to the Atom, I have come across a small problem. The code that runs on the system will generally error out by calling the inline print routine and then executing a BRK :

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.QuitTooSmall
        JSR		INLINE_PRINT
        EQUS    "Destination too small"
	BRK

On the system this will return to the command interpreter loop, but on the Atom it seems to print an Error number and then hang
What would be the correct way of printing the error and then returning to basic?

Cheers.

Phill.

[Prime]

Hi all,

To answer my own question, the fix is that on the Atom, the code needs to start at $2900, rather than $2800 for the System, otherwise the BRK causes a crash because basic can't exit cleanly to command mode.....it ends up looking for the end of the basic program in the middle of the loaded executable

Cheers.

Phill.

[hoglet]

I think another way is to force a jump to #C2B2

(that is also the execution access of basic program created with SAVE)

That also sets PAGE (?18) to #29 and writes the 0D FF end of program marker. So pretty much the same as pressing BREAK.

The ROM disassembly is quite good for understanding this stuff:
http://www.acornatom.nl/atom_handleidin ... m/c000.txt

Start at C2B2....