Re: A85: ROM Browser
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Re: A85: ROM Browser
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Dines Christy Justesen wrote:
> TI does not like anyone posting ROM's om the net. If you do they will have
> you take it down (I have received a ltter like that once).
>
> Dines
>
They sure make it a pain. That really squashes collaberation. Since we
don't all have the same ROM version.
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> Dines Justesen
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> On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Michael Pearce wrote:
>
> >
> > why haven't we started a project of disassembling a ROM and putting
> > the entire thing on the Web. this way people can contribute to the
> > ROM (by adding comments and labels to the ROM). i think i saw
> > something like this for, i think, the Spectrum.
> >
> > -mike pearce
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:56:55 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Tom Decker wrote:
> > >> Before writing your own, try looking for a Z80 disassembler.
> > >> They usually output an edittable text file. Some even give
> > >> you a file you can assemble to regenerate the ROM. I have
> > >> seen many and most do a good job of separating subroutines
> > >> based on RET, JR, and JP.
> > >>
> > >> Why reinvent the wheel?
> > >>
> > >I wouldn't want my program to depend on others. The input wouldn't be a
> > >text file with source but a text file that has data for the routines
> > >stored, labels that have been assigned to them, comments added through
> > >the browser, and anything else you might need.
> > >
> > >> Even after you break down the ROM, you will spend the
> > >> greatest part of your time interpretting it! I tried this
> > >> several years ago on a copyright infringment case where
> > >> a former employee had stolen lots of source code. We won,
> > >> but only after I spent 2 weeks sorting through only 8Kb of
> > >> 6502 code.
> > >>
> > >That is really my goal, to make it easier to sort through lots of
> > >uncommented source. Thanks for the help, I think it will be fairly easy
> > >to write, but maybe it will turn into a monster. If so, I probably will
> > >rely on a disassembler.
> > >
> > >-Humberto Yeverino Jr.
> > >
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