On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 16:44:45 -0700 "John R. Hogerhuis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> So if I'm playing Text Sweeper and I turn off the laptop, when I > power it up again, I'm back at the menu. > > Is there any way to get the laptop to stay in the program you're > running? A poke or CALL? > If the game runs a POWER OFF, RESUME command, it will shut the machine off, and resume the game on power-on (*). It doesn't look like RESUME by itself can catch a power-cycle event, and we don't seem to have ON POWER GOTO... (*)As of REX manager 4.8 this doesn't work with REX. :-( This is what finally drove me to add proper savegames to ROG. ;-) There must be calls in ROM to do the same thing, but they aren't officially documented and I haven't stumbled across them randomly reading the Covington maps. Willard -- Willard Goosey [email protected] Socorro, New Mexico, USA I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night. -- R.E. Howard
