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Re: Wolf. 3D IIGS - NEWS Update!



In article <DKDJ6F.8yH@actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz
(David Empson) wrote:


> The toolbox and operating system are at a higher level.  GS/OS could
> be compared with MS-DOS, which is not part of the BIOS, and the
> Toolbox could be compared with MS-Windows.  These are easy to upgrade,
> by patching out the ROM-based tools with newer versions, for example.
> (GS/OS is entirely loaded from disk.)
Not entirely. Lots of the tools on a ROM 01 gs and all the tools on a ROM
03 gs are loaded from ROM (i.e. you could, theoretically, add new
functions to the GS by creating new roms--however unlikely this might be.)