On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, MkII wrote:
> >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.
Adriano Cunha has already said that STOPDRV stops all drives, so it's not
necessary to call it for each diskrom. By the way, it will stop harddisks
(as said in this list a long time ago), so when you try read data from
harddisks, you'll get some trouble.
Greetings from Brazil!
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