Re: substituting ROMs (Re: Illegal Clones)

[blackm00@cam.org (Michael Black)]

Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.44.0210151251510.14446-100000@lab.oregonvos.net>...
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 noone@nowhere.net wrote:
> |Although it LOOKed like a IIc clone, the manual claimed it was a IIe
> |clone.  All the software I had identified my Laser128 as an enhanced
> |IIe with bunch of cards built in.  The Laser also had an expansion
> |slot along the left side so you could add a card of your own choosing.
> |It could be set as slot 5 or 7.  Of course the expansion box with
> |addtional power supply allowed you to use two cards, one in slot 5 and
> |one in slot 7.
> |
> |I loved the internal set-up menu, that was neat.  There was lots of
> |room in the eprom for additional code.  That machine could have been
> |a hacker's delight if I had RTFM.  Anyone else ever use the
> |Ctrl-M-Reset?
> |
> |Thankx,
> |Ed
> |
> |Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
> |
> |>    1) It was a //c clone.
>
> Forgive me for intruding, but along somewhat tangential lines,
> does anybody have a "Commodore Compatible" replacement ROM for
> the Apple IIgs?
>
> I mean, something with a Commodore Kernal, and something similar
> to BASIC 2.0?
>
> Or do I have to do it myself?

I didn't think anything like that happened, except for hardware
solutions; was it the Spartan that plugged into a C64 to give it
Apple II capabilities?

There did seem to be some migration the other way.  Since the Apple
monitor was out there in assembly format (Steve Wozniak published
various bits in Dr. Dobbs, and then the whole thing was in the back
of the Apple manual), I think people tended to adapt it to other
computers.  I had the disassembler running on my OSI Superboard,
and then later added the Apple mini-assembler.  I think I eventually
added some other bits of the monitor.  Likewise, I thought Jim Butterfield
used the disassembler and mini-assembler in his Commodore 64 monitor
that was printed in Compute! magazine.  I can't remember if he stated
he had, I noticed a similarity, or I just assumed.

   Michael