Re: BIOS ROMs for clones, and ROM paging info?

[Patrick Schaefer <PSchaefer@epost.de>]

Dosius schrieb:

> Does anyone have any information about the BIOS ROMs on these
> machines, how they are banked, and if they will run on a 1-65C02
> "machine"?  (Some clones have 2 6502s?)  Just for the sake of
> completeness. :)

The regular taiwanese clones were sold with Applesoft & Autostart
Monitor in ROM. Often the power-on message was changed to "COMPUTER",
"ORANGE II", "HELLO" or something like this. Another memory location was
changed to enable lower case letters. Sometimes these boards had three
2732 ROMs instead of the six 2716. 

Mainboards with build-in Z80 and 64k had a 2764+2732 on a small card in
slot 0 (the 16k card was built in). Slot 4 is missing on these systems
due to the built-in Z80 card. 

IBS sold their machines with Forth in ROM, but (pirated) Applesoft ROMs
could be used, too.


Patrick