Re: progress on ROM 03 source reconstruction

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

retrogear <larrygr510@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. 
> 
>  
> That will work too but the function I'm missing is the ability to place
> FFC100.bin INSIDE of FF0000.bin at offset $C100, FFC500.bin inside at
> offset $C500 and applesoft.bin inside at offset $D000. It is the
> equivalent of pasting the files over the existing sections in FF0000.bin.
> File FF0000.bin is 64k length with zeroes filled in where those files go.
> I'm not sure why Apple did this bank that way but there must have been a
> reason. The other banks were all linked into segments.
> 
> Larry

How about because it's easy to do?

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon