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1.1     ! root        1: MiNT is Not TOS: A Multitasking Operating System Extension for the Atari ST
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        !             5: Copyright 1990,1991,1992 Eric R. Smith.
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        !             7: Copyright 1992,1993 Atari Corporation
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        !             9: All rights reserved.
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        !            13: THE MiNT SOURCE CODE IS PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE, AS IS. ATARI
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        !            15: CORPORATION AND ERIC R. SMITH MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
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        !            17: WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THIS CODE, AND IN PARTICULAR
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        !            19: SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
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        !            21: MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. USE THIS
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        !            23: CODE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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        !            27: Here is the source code for the current version of MiNT. There are
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        !            29: lots of changes, of course, but no docs. Sorry. The "changes" file
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        !            31: does provide a useful list of things that have changed since previous
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        !            33: versions of MiNT.
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        !            37: Please read the notice in "copying" carefully. This code is completely
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        !            39: unsupported; you use it at your own risk. Because it is unsupported
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        !            41: (and undocumented) we are distributing it in source code only form.
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        !            43: Users who wish a binary version of MiNT should purchase MultiTOS.
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        !            45: Anyone who wants to use this version of MiNT should be fully aware
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        !            47: of the risks involved in using unsupported software, and should
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        !            49: also be comfortable enough with C and the process of compiling that
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        !            51: they can fix bugs themselves. Please respect the conditions in "copying"
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        !            53: (in particular please do not redistribute binary versions of this
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        !            55: program). Source code to future versions of MiNT will not be made
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        !            57: available if these conditions are violated.
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        !            61: This version of MiNT is compiled to use memory protection by
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        !            63: default. If you want to use the version of the AES from the ROM,
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        !            65: you'll have to (a) turn off the -DMULTITOS flag in the makefile,
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        !            67: and (b) after compiling rename "mint.prg" to "mintnp.prg". If
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        !            69: MiNT notices that it is called "mintnp.prg", it will come up
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        !            71: with memory protection disabled (this is necessary because the ROM
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        !            73: AES violates memory protection in several ways). You can also
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        !            75: disable memory protection by setting the "no_mem_prot" variable
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        !            77: in memprot.c and recompiling.
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