Reaction to a rather old message:

>>> I don't like the idea of modifying MSX work area...
>>it is only two bytes and I believe there is still some unused space
>>(somewhere near #FFFx ? or are all these addresses used for V9938/58
>>register readback?)
>
>Yes but this is very dangerous. We must be REALLY SURE that the used
>location is not used for anything by the system or other programs.

The given "advantage" for reading the data from an adress in the system-area
is: speed.
But, errm... Do you really think this matters in combination with a
disk-operation? Don't think so...


>>There are also a lot of hookentries which are probably never used (or only
>>the first 3 bytes of it for a jp) I think there are a lot of other
>>possibilities...
>
>Don't touch hooks please!! You can never know who, why and when could these
>hooks be used!

Oh, I fully agree to that!


~Grauw


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