<davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/15/1995 22:54:00
On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, Allen Briggs wrote:
> > Any way to disassemble the "About this Macintosh" box code? :-) MacOS
> > does it somehow. The question is, how?
>
> There are gestalt calls for it, but the problem is how to determine it
> in the first place... I think the ROM does it as part of the power-on
> sequence and it stores it in some low-memory global or something.
> Perhaps.
Try: MemTop EQU $108 ; top of memory [pointer]
From: Encyclopedic Mac Rom p.897.
Would that be it, perchance? It's within the Heap Zone Header, if that
helps.
Later,
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