Re: Where to find an APPLE2E rom ?

[irsman@winternet.com (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <31BC7525.50F8@folio.com>, James R. Ivie <jivie@folio.com> wrote:
>Yeah, right!  That's a good one.  Given the architecture of the Apple 
>II+/IIe, It would not be possible to write your own ROMS and have any 
>significant number of programs work.  Nearly every program I know of 
>jumped directly into the ROM code with certain registers set to perform 
>certain operations.  There would be no way to do the same thing without 
>infringing heavily on the copyrights or breaking most of the programs 
>out there.

Not true.  The GS uses significantly different ROMs than the 8-bit machines,
and yet it works with 99% of old software.  The Executor emulator which
emulates the 68k Macs on the PC and NeXT also uses clean-room ROMs with
pretty good results, and those ROMs are significantly more complex than
the old 8-bit IIs.

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