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Re: IIgs peculiarities
On Feb 22, 8:27 am, David Wilson <mcs6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 22, 12:37 pm, Sheppy <the.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > 6) If a ROM disk is to be present in banks $F0 .. $FB, what the format
> > > should be? Just a ProDOS image which then shows with it's volume name?
>
> > IIRC, the format is that the first bytes in the ROM memory need to be
> > "ROMDISK" followed by a disk image.
>
> Slightly more is needed. The code for the SmartPort driver to actually
> read the ROMdisk resides in this ROM area as well. See pages 152-155
> of "Apple IIgs Firmware Reference".
Thanks for the pointer, the manual answered my general questions about
ROMDISK. I haven't read befire that further and didn't suppose the
ROMDISK <--> SmartPort connection.
-- Vlad