Re: How to dump ROMs?

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

Stefano Priore <stefano.priore@inwind.it> writes:
>Can someone point me to a program able to dump Apple II's (and clones' too) ROMs? Not simply the main BIOS, but also character generator, peripherals' controllers and so on...

This is impossible. The chargen ROM is not connected to the data bus so
cannot be read by a program. You need to pull it out and plug it into
another socket that expects the same size ROM (2716 on rev 7 or later ][+,
2732 on NTSC //e and //c, 2764 on PAL //c and //e (and International NTSC
Platinum //e)). Similar problem for the //e & //c keyboard ROM.

> BTW is there a way to transfer the files on a MSDOS diskette?

Yes, if you have a Blue Disk controller card or a Superdrive and controller
or a SCSI card and Floptical drive.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia