Re: Ripping my GS's ROMs isn't working...

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In article <57id4f$hh9@hecate.umd.edu>, snakey@Glue.umd.edu (David Andrew
Ross) writes:

>
>     Ok, I'm home over Thanksgiving and I've been attempting to rip the
>my ROM 1 GS's ROMs for use with XGS.  Long story short: It's not working.
>=)  After doing a CALL -151, the instructions say to type this:
>
>00/800 < FE/0000.3FFFM
>
>When I do this, the GS prints a few characters and locks up, clicking
>the speaker and blinking the screen every once in a while.  I've done
>this now in PRODOS 1.9, 1.8, 1.2, and GS/OS.  (I believe those PRODOS
>version numbers are right)  Any ideas? ....
>

     BASIC was started from the System 6 Finder and, after doing a CALL
-151, I tried the move you list. It worked fine.

     A guess would be that you are running some background task which uses
part of the Bank 00 space being over-written by the move. The background
task would, naturally, choke.

     Have you tried starting BASIC by cold-booting a plain, non-patched
ProDOS from diskette? (i.e. set boot Slot to 5, do a Shutdown if at the
Finder, turn OFF the computer, and, then, power-up boot ProDOS from
diskette.)

     As long as the boot does not also start some exotic background
routine, such as a screen saver, the move should cause no hang-ups. (If
the move now works, you can be pretty sure that one or more NDA's, CDA's,
Control Panels, Finder extensions, and Inits you are bringing in under
System 6 was causing the problem.)
 

Rubywand