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#ROM Problem

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#93624From: Robert HayesMar 30, 1993 8:54 PM
I posted this a couple of days ago, but didn't get a response, so this time I'll tickle a sysop's ear. I am having a complicated problem involving some Kickstart ROMs and need to find a program that will read a ROM into a disk file. Is there such a program out there? Thanks/1
#93661From: Don Curtis/SYSOPMar 30, 1993 11:50 PM
Robert, Depending on which version of KickStart you're talking about, there's already a version on disk…the KickStart disks. But no…I know of no program specifically written that dumps the system ROM to a file. It shouldn't be too hard to write one…I just don't know that anyone has done it. Don
#93683From: Robert HayesMar 31, 1993 2:32 AM
The problem is that I don't have the disks, I have a bunch of ROMs that I don't want to have to switch by hand. Do you know the address of the ROM to the memory? If you do (or if somebody else does) it couldn't be too difficult to write a little asm routine that just gulps whats there to a file.
#93705From: Dave GrayMar 31, 1993 10:21 AM
There was a program around here for those of us who had a 2630 accelerator when 2.04 came out. It had a program that read the rom into a file, then you used SETCPU to load & boot the rom image. Clunky, but it worked 'till the 2630 roms came out. What does this mean to you? If you can find it (I don't know if its still extant), it even included the source to read & save the roms. I'm afraid I've lost my copy (bought a 4000). I THINK it was called X2630 or the like… perhaps someone will jump in here?
#93741From: Robert HayesMar 31, 1993 5:06 PM
I found a program that works A-OK on the latest Fred Fish disk. Thanks for the help!