Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:15 pm
Oula, oula.
Forget about Ftdos, forget about Sedoric, the point of using the disc drive in the demo is also to get 16 additional kilobytes. The only demo that uses Sedoric to load the data is first megademo we made, the one without sound and loads slowly
All that is required is a "load sector" routine which does it all by itself, without requiring any pre-existing stuff.
The problem is of course that the source code of all parts of the megademo is not available, so it's not possible to rebuild the full demo. So we need to patch the existing stuff.
The problem is of course to know if it's possible to keep the existing sector lay-out, in this case what would need to be done is:
- Get a Jasmin friendly boot sector
- Rewrite the loader
Done
I don't remember if the Jasmin and the Microdisc have their bootsectors located at the same location :-/
Forget about Ftdos, forget about Sedoric, the point of using the disc drive in the demo is also to get 16 additional kilobytes. The only demo that uses Sedoric to load the data is first megademo we made, the one without sound and loads slowly
All that is required is a "load sector" routine which does it all by itself, without requiring any pre-existing stuff.
The problem is of course that the source code of all parts of the megademo is not available, so it's not possible to rebuild the full demo. So we need to patch the existing stuff.
The problem is of course to know if it's possible to keep the existing sector lay-out, in this case what would need to be done is:
- Get a Jasmin friendly boot sector
- Rewrite the loader
Done
I don't remember if the Jasmin and the Microdisc have their bootsectors located at the same location :-/