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ADFReserveMemory is doing some weird things, I'm seeing RMA issues after it alters the DA (corruption and modules failing to load). This only happens when it's done from the Supervisor prompt though, under the WIMP it's okay. Even more oddly, it happens on RO3.1 and RO3.5+ so it's not my DA code. Th...

Currently "Boot floppy" will quit the WIMP, which in turn triggers ADFFS to perform a simulated Shift-Reset. This wasn't the best design decision looking back on it, as most games will run under the WIMP, it's only a few games that mess about with the memory map directly that are problemat...

I've added *ADFReserveMemory which has fixed BlowPipe by reserving 700KB in the boot script. I can see a looming problem though. If DA's can't take memory from application space, delta writes wont be able to allocate more space for writes, we'll have to know how much to reserve up front or take a gu...

BlowPipe - think I've figured out what's going on. R13 isn't corrupt, its been set to the end of the application space by the game. When ADFFS takes memory, it's taking BlowPipe's stack! Only way around this is to reserve memory before the game starts, or run it under the WIMP. I need to implement r...

The Module names are in this thread Having a dummy module is how I implemented MemAlloc, it seems like the sensible route to go down short of taking over the relevant OS_Module SWI and fooling the app into thinking its loaded. I may have to do this at a later date, as I've noticed some games load Me...

Jon - I'm happy to include LCDGameModes with the next release of ADFFS, if it's ready. I won't be back at the computer until next weekend, so if you can wait that long - that's fine That's fine, I need to fix this DA bug anyway and also need to sort out reserving for games running in BASIC. I think...

it'll be much better for ADFFS to handle that in future. If you let me know the module names you want to use, I'll update the current source as I'm playing with DA's at the minute. I've read though all your notes now, although will go back and re-read as there's a lot to take in, I also need to loo...

Bizarrely it works when run under the WIMP on RO3.1 The only difference between the WIMP and Supervisor is about 10 instructions where ADFFS issues a Service_Memory service call, before taking the memory from the top of the application space. I have a hunch that MemLimit and ApplicationSpaceSize mig...

I've just been looking at BlowPipe. It works under VIDC translation on RO3.5 - so I'm sure there's a problem with the DA on RO3.1. I can sense days of painful debugging ahead of me! I'm going to add a *ADFReserveMemory command and alter the boot script, to see if it's related. Both BlowPipe and Cata...

I'm just reading through your notes. If you check the catalogue on the dev site, I documented all the versions being used, I think I found 7 versions in all. Initial thoughts: Reserving memory via * command sounds sensible, as it differs from game to game. Is there an easy way to tell how much memor...