Re: A85: ROM Disassembly
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Re: A85: ROM Disassembly
I agree (but without all of the profanity :) ). i doubt that people
disassembling their ROM is considered that big of a deal. In fact,
Compaq did it with the original IBM PC to make clones. I think that
as long as none of us "steal" any of the code, it is no big deal.
-mike pearce
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:36:31 -0400, you wrote:
>
>i, the owner of *the* TIrom distribution site, would be proud to host a
>rom disassembly page.
>
>besides.... i've had the site for a long time, and i've posted many
>messages to various places (email, IRC, etc.) and TI hasn't done shit.
>
>Now... i just post it. i don't sell it, modify it, or fuck it.
>downloading to YOUR hard drive is in your own discretion.
>
>if you have roms that i don't, or have disasmed roms, send a LIST to
>tiroms@hotmail.com
>
>thanks 4 your time.
>-Greg
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>On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:48:45 -0700 (PDT) Humberto Yeverino
><humberto@engr.csufresno.edu> writes:
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Tom Decker wrote:
>>> This would make a great project to put on the web
>>> and slice the work up into 4Kb or 8Kb memory
>>> ranges. The trick might be not violating any
>>> copyright laws in the process.
>>>
>>We could just post the location of the routines and not the source,
>>that's
>>all we really want anyway.
>>Posting disassembled source to the ROM would be just as illegal as
>>posting
>>ROM dumps, if not more.
>>
>>I don't know about slicing it up though, since most routines use
>>others
>>it's possible that some source you need to look at is not in the slice
>>you're studing.
>>
>>I think a bottom up approach would be best. Find all the little
>>routines
>>that do things like: Swap HL and IX.. Then it would be easier to
>>study
>>bigger routines. If we don't define the small routine first, they
>>will
>>end up being "rediscovered" every time someone tries to study bigger
>>routines.
>>
>>> I am sure that some to TI's code would be copyrighted!
>>> If TI allowed the source code to be put on the web,
>>> they would lose all copyrights, I think? It would be
>>> just like GNU code on the web. I wouldn't want to
>>> be accross the table from their lawyers! =() Oh No!
>>>
>>Neither would I.
>>
>>-Humberto Yeverino Jr.
>>
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