Re: A85: ROM Browser

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Re: A85: ROM Browser


why haven't we started a project of disassembling a ROM and putting
the entire thing on the Web.  this way people can contribute to the
ROM (by adding comments and labels to the ROM).  i think i saw
something like this for, i think, the Spectrum.

-mike pearce

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:56:55 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>
>On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Tom Decker wrote:
>> Before writing your own, try looking for a Z80 disassembler.
>> They usually output an edittable text file.  Some even give
>> you a file you can assemble to regenerate the ROM.  I have
>> seen many and most do a good job of separating subroutines
>> based on RET, JR, and JP.
>> 
>> Why reinvent the wheel?
>> 
>I wouldn't want my program to depend on others.  The input wouldn't be a
>text file with source but a text file that has data for the routines
>stored, labels that have been assigned to them, comments added through
>the browser, and anything else you might need.
>
>> Even after you break down the ROM, you will spend the
>> greatest part of your time interpretting it!  I tried this
>> several years ago on a copyright infringment case where
>> a former employee had stolen lots of source code.  We won,
>> but only after I spent 2 weeks sorting through only 8Kb of
>> 6502 code.
>> 
>That is really my goal, to make it easier to sort through lots of
>uncommented source.  Thanks for the help, I think it will be fairly easy
>to write, but maybe it will turn into a monster.  If so, I probably will
>rely on a disassembler.
>
>-Humberto Yeverino Jr.
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