Re: progress on ROM 03 source reconstruction

[Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, retrogear wrote:

> okay this is how far I've gotten with putting together the ROM 03 $FF bank:
>
> Running the buildffrom script produces the following bin files:
>
> serial.bin     $0000-3BFF  (now includes the easter egg shout)
> ad35driver.bin $3C00-55FF
> smartport.bin  $5600-63FF
> diag.bin       $6400-75FF
> monitor.bin    $7600=$FFFF (files get overlayed inside this)
> c1xx.bin       $C100-C1FF
> c2xx.bin       $C200-C2FF
> c5xx.bin       $C500-C6FF
> c7xx.bin       $C700-C7FF
> applesoft.bin  $D000-F7FF
>
> I created a DOS batch file (sorry) which does the following:
>
> copy serial.bin /b + ad35driver.bin /b + smartport.bin /b + diag.bin /b + monitor.bin /b FF0000.bin /b
> copy C1xx.bin /b + C2xx.bin /b FFC100.bin /b
> copy C5xx.bin /b + C7xx.bin /b FFC500.bin /b
>
> Then with a hex editor I overlay FFC100.bin, FFC500.bin and applesoft.bin inside of FF0000.bin
> which now produces a byte accurate copy of ROM 03 $FF bank.
>
> The MPWIIGS system used a tool overlayiigs to do this but this tool is apparently lost for all of eternity...
>
> Anyone have any ideas how to do the final pasting with a script? I've found commercial hex editors which run scripts
> but they cost money...
>
> Larry

The *x equivalent would probably be thus:

#!/bin/sh
cat serial.bin ad35driver.bin smartport.bin diag.bin \
    monitor.bin > FF0000.bin
cat C1xx.bin C2xx.bin > FFC100.bin
cat C5xx.bin C7xx.bin > FFC500.bin

sound about right?

-uso.