Re: ROM 1 vs ROM 3???

[saturna@garcia.efn.org (Kevin Saturna)]

Does anyone know where to get the patch for Dungeon Master so it works on
a ROM 3 unit?  I would really like to get hold of that!

Thanks for any help!

---Kevin

Steven W. Mentzer (smentzer@ecom.net) wrote:
: >
: >Preferably you want the ROM 3 - it's newer and has improvements in its Toolbox 
: >routines from the ROM 01.


: Both machines have advantages and disadvantages. The "newer rom toolbox 
: routines" argument falls VERY short, considering that the Rom03 was released 
: circa GS/OS 5.0.2, and 6.0.1 changed a slew of toolsets. Therefore, the toolbox 
: routines are "patched", and the original rom routines are not used (nearly 
: erasing the slight speed difference between a rom01 and rom03 too!)

: The Rom3 has more base memory (1MB vs 256k), which is nice, and several 
: motherboard improvements were made.

: Several old titles (such as dungeon master, some FTA demos) would not run on a 
: ROM03 without patches because they used undocumented toolbox/firmware calls 
: that got "zapped" in the rom03 release. That is mostly irrelevant these days, 
: as most "relavent" software was patched by the authors.

: Mostly, I prefer a Rom03 just because it is *newer*. 

: smentzer@ecom.net


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