BBS: Inland Empire Archive Date: 02-11-93 (10:55) Number: 393 From: MARK BUTLER Refer#: NONE To: TOM HAMMOND Recvd: NO Subj: SPIN.OBJ 1/2 Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
Once upon a time Tom Hammond uttered these sage words to All: TH> I'd appreciate a little direction here, if possible. TH> My problem is that the program contains some in-line code.. Ok Tom this program reminds me a lot of a gw-basic program I saw some time ago that I derived SPIN.OBJ from by converting the data into a BINfile and then disassembling it. As a matter of fact I *think* the program you posted _is_ that very same program if I'm not mistaken. Anyway, here's what I came up with to get QB compatible 'spin' subs for drives A: and B:.... ==========================8< Cut Here 8<============================= page ,132 .model medium, basic .code ; ; QuickBASIC declarations... ; DECLARE SUB SpinA () ; DECLARE SUB SpinB () ; ; These routines will spin drives A: or B: long enough for a ; good cleaning. -MHB ; public SpinA, SpinB SpinA proc xor ax,ax int 1ah push cx push dx L00106: mov ax,0401h mov cx,0001h mov dx,0000h int 13h xor ax,ax int 1ah cmp al,00h pop bx pop ax push ax push bx je l00124 add bx,00b0h adc ax,0018h L00124: add bx,0222h adc ax,0000h mov si,010bh xor byte ptr [si],27h cmp ax,cx jnbe l00106 cmp bx,dx jnbe l00106 pop ax pop ax xor ax,ax int 13h ret SpinA endp SpinB proc xor ax,ax int 1ah push cx push dx H00106: mov ax,0401h mov cx,0001h mov dx,0001h int 13h xor ax,ax int 1ah cmp al,00h pop bx pop ax push ax push bx je h00124 add bx,00b0h adc ax,0018h H00124: add bx,0222h adc ax,0000h mov si,010bh xor byte ptr [si],27h cmp ax,cx jnbe h00106 cmp bx,dx jnbe h00106 pop ax pop ax xor ax,ax int 13h ret SpinB endp end ==========================8< Cut Here 8<============================= For those of you that do not have MASM or TASM the next message contains a debug script that you can recreate SPIN.OBJ from. >>>Continued in the next message --- timEd/B7 * I don't believe in miracles... I depend on them * Origin: Terminal Oasis, Portland OR (1:105/330.5)
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