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 Message 2139 
 Felice Murolo to Danny Bee 
 Re: Amiga assembly, bootblock developing 
 17 Oct 23 20:34:14 
 
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On 17-10-2023 07:53:36, Danny Bee writes:

>  FM> into the floppy bootblock. 
> The goal is to have your NDOS disk bootup to your program or just to boot 
> stuff from a floppy even if this is just a system formatted disk. 
> I'm sure the first is well documented on the Internet, but as you're more 
> on learning assembly written programs to distribute the on a floppy, why 
> to start from startup-sequence? 

Hi Danny,

that is, are you telling me that bootblocks like the ones in the images I
attach do nothing more than load a normal program allocated somewhere else on
the diskette?

https://fel.hopto.org/test/demo.png
https://fel.hopto.org/test/demo2.png



Ciao.
Felix

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