84PCE:OS:VAT

The VAT has remained pretty much the same, as has the structure of archived variables.

One important thing to note is that the ROM page offset is now a part of the whole address, which is nice in order to maintain backwards compatibility.

Traversing the VAT Example:

;-------------------------------------
; fdetect
; detects appvars, prot progs, and
; progs given a 0-terminated string
; pointed to by ix.
;-------------------------------------
; INPUTS:
; hl->place to start searching
; ix->string to find
;
; OUTPUTS:
; hl->place stopped searching
; de->program data
; bc=program size
; OP1 contains the name and type byte
; z flag set if found
;-------------------------------------
fdetect:
 ld de,(ptemp)
 call _cphlde
 ld a,(hl)
 ld (typeByte_SMC),a
 jr nz,fcontinue
 inc a
 ret
fcontinue:
 push hl
 cp appvarobj
 jr z,fgoodtype
 cp protprogobj
 jr z,fgoodtype
 cp progobj
 jr nz,fskip
fgoodtype:
 dec hl
 dec hl
 dec hl
 ld e, (hl)
 dec hl
 ld d,(hl)
 dec hl
 ld a,(hl)
 call _SetDEUToA
 push de
 pop hl
 cp $D0
 jr nc,finRAM
 push ix
 push de
  push hl
  pop ix
  ld a,10
  add a,(ix+9)
  ld de,0
  ld e,a
  add hl,de
  ex (sp),hl
  add hl,de
 pop de
 ex de,hl
 pop ix
finRAM:
 inc de
 inc de
 ld bc,0
 ld c,(hl)
 inc hl
 ld b,(hl)
 inc hl ; hl -> data
 push bc ; bc = size
 push ix
 pop bc
fchkstr:
 ld a,(bc)
 or a,a
 jr z,ffound
 cp (hl)
 inc bc
 inc de
 inc hl
 jr z,fchkstr
 pop bc
fskip:
 pop hl
 call fbypassname
 jr fdetect
ffound:
 push bc
 pop hl
 push ix
 pop bc
 or a,a
 sbc hl,bc
 push hl
 pop bc
 pop hl ; size
 or a,a
 sbc hl,bc
 push hl
 pop bc
 pop hl ; current search location
 push bc
 call fbypassname
 pop bc
 xor a
 ret
fbypassname:
 push de
  ld bc,-6
  add hl,bc
typeByte_SMC: =$+1
  ld a,15h
  ld de,OP1
  ld (de),a
  inc de
  ld b,(hl)		; Name to OP1 -> For things like archiving/deleting
  inc b
fbypassnameloop:
  ld a,(hl)
  ld (de),a
  inc de
  dec hl
  djnz fbypassnameloop
  xor a
  ld (de),a
 pop de
 ret