Re: A85: ROM Browser

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Re: A85: ROM Browser


TI does not like anyone posting ROM's om the net. If you do they will have
you take it down (I have received a ltter like that once).

Dines

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Dines Justesen
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On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Michael Pearce wrote:

> 
> 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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