[OpenBIOS] patch to allow Mac OS 9 to boot

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk
Tue Feb 2 21:02:46 CET 2016


On 02/02/16 15:19, Programmingkid wrote:

> On Feb 2, 2016, at 6:08 AM, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
> 
>> On 2016-Feb-1 23:08 , Programmingkid wrote:
>>> This is most of the patch that is needed to make OpenBIOS successfully boot Mac OS 9. From the bootstrap.fs file, the 0a means linefeed. The file also says the 0d means carret '^'? If this patch is to look for linefeeds and carriage returns, why use the carret character here? 
>>
>> 0d is carriage return. "carret" means carriage return, not "^", which
>> would be "caret".
> 
> Thank you very much for the clarification. I request that the name be changed to carriage_return. 
> 
> Mark, would you accept that patch?

To be honest I'm not particularly keen on having this hack on a hack -
I'd much rather we figure out a way to handle r-stack commands in a
normal context rather than relying on something which happens to work
out of sheer luck :(


ATB,

Mark.




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