Re: DiskROM *MOTOR OFF*

[MkII]

>I don't know if this works with all kinds of disk-interfaces, but I'm used
>to do the following:
>       LD IX,04029H
>       LD IY,(0F347H)
>       CALL 0001CH
>
>This calls the STOPDRV routine from diskrom (entry point 4029h). But I
>don't know what will happen if you have 2 disk-interfaces connected to one
>MSX. Does somebody know?

OK, thanks. Now I'm calling the STOPDRV routine for each valid DiskROM
found in the table at #FB21. It works very smooth. Perhaps it will spin
down hard disks and similar devices but that's OK since the game gathers
all system resources and no scatter disk access is done during gameplay.

        MARK 2



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