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From: Ira Rainey <shad.dev@netcomuk.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Restarting PSX
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 18:37:48 +0100
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Developer Support wrote:
> 
> Ira Rainey wrote:
> >
> > It's taken some time to sink in, but I've just noticed that my Yaroze
> > doesn't reset when it should/I tell it to(?).
> >
> > I just realised this after going through the wad of misc source files I
> > have now and finding the very first hello world code and reading the
> > text file. That's when it clicked.
> >
> > Is this something due to the PSComUtil, or what?
> >
> > Any ideas, all I end up with is a frozen screen on the PSX and an error
> > in the console window unexpected error type 8.
> >
> > Ira
> > --
> > "Never take life too seriously, 'cause you know you're not getting out
> > of it alive."  - Bugs Bunny
> 
> Not sure what you mean by 'resetting' the Yaroze.
> 
> If you mean a full memory reset, this is not achievable
> by any software call, only by manually pressing the reset button.
> 
> If you mean resetting to properly return to the CIP console,
> i.e. the Yaroze ready-to-download screen, then there are a couple
> of things to bear in mind. (Mainly that it is vital to make
> programs exit cleanly to return to the console; otherwise
> you will need hardware resets and reloading of many files).
> 
> Firstly, a program will only quit and return to the console if
> (a) the program has a quit-condition (eg user presses start and
> select together) - many programs have No such terminator
> (b) the program exits cleanly: programs that use sound are
> especially in need of properly freeing up the sound resources
> before exiting. Also return zero from main.
> 
> Secondly, our testers had problems with CodeWarrior: this seems
> to mke it more likely to need resetting.
> Best advice here: send messages to Metrowerks via the
> CodeWarrior newsgroup.
> 
> Lewis

When I mean resetting, I meant the PSX returning to the CIP console.

This has never happened.

Ira
-- 
"Never take life too seriously, 'cause you know you're not getting out
of it alive."  - Bugs Bunny