Re: What are the chances of a Replica II project?

[Lyrical Nanoha <lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx>]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Simon D. Williams wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
>
> > That's what I'd like to do, honestly.  I never uploaded my SDDapple
> > sources anywhere except my old computer so I don't know if they ever got
> > mirrored, I still have them, but not on my Web site anymore :/ but some
> > versions do have a partial implementation of the ROM in mostly C code.  (A
> > preliminary version also had a partial implementation of ProDOS that I
> > never finished.)  This should be clean-room enough to start from as
> > documentation - there's no Apple code, just my reimplementation of it and
> > some comments.
> >
> > -uso.
>
> What about using the ROM from one of the legal clones? I'm sure most of
> those companies are long gone, or would no longer have any legal
> interest... or would even notice.
>
> Just a thought.

It would be much more difficult.  There's only really 2 options that I 
know of, the Laser (whose ROM is owned by Symantec) and SimSystem IIe.

Now the latter poses an interesting question.  It's a shareware emulator 
with a Laser-like ROM.  The ROM is part of the package and would appear to 
thusly be freely redistributable.  The question is reverse-engineering it, 
so that we know how it banks, and how it expects to communicate with the 
hardware.  It's similar but not identical to the //c ROM; it can't be 
banked the same way, though.

So, might this be the way to go?

(By the way, the BASIC I distributed with SDDapple was this one.)

-uso.