Re: substituting ROMs (Re: Illegal Clones)

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Matthew Russotto replied:

>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.

Not twisted--true elegance!

-michael

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