Re: substituting ROMs (Re: Illegal Clones)

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <20021017132008.11640.00016602@mb-fi.aol.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>
>In the case of the mini-assembler, if it was Apple II-derived, there could
>be no doubt.
>
>The Apple II mini-assembler has a structure which, to my knowledge,
>is unique in mocrocomputerdom.  It simply starts incrementing an
>"opcode" byte in the destination location, _disassembling_ it after
>each increment, until it matches what the user typed in!  It then
>fills in the operand address byte(s), if any, and disassembles it
>again to the screen.

ROTFL.  I knew Woz was a genius, I didn't know he was a _twisted_
genius.  Though the Disk II controller should have clued me in.
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Matthew T. Russotto                                mrussotto@speakeasy.net
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