Date   : Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:39:43 +0100
From   : Sprow <news@...>
Subject: Re: Master ET

In article <6e554a544b%mjfoot@...>,
   Michael Foot <mjfoot@...> wrote:
> I picked up a couple of Master ET machines recently. Since they have MOS 
> 4.00 in them, which is not available on the web, I would like to try and 
> dump this if possible. Is there a program available that will dump a 
> Master OS completely? I've tried reading the memory from &C000-&FFFF but 
> cannot get a file that looks right.

Simply 
 *SAVE mainos C000 +4000
though the names hidden behind fred/jim/sheila wont be accessable unless you
take the chip out and read it manually.

Then the remaining 3 images are all sideways and there are plenty of
programs about to save those - you should end up with a 64k image.

> Secondly, there were 4 of these machines available and I got 2 of them. I 
> know they are fairly rare so does anyone think it is worth me getting the 
> other 2? Are they rare because no one bought them, or rare because they 
> are not worth collecting?

More because not many were made I think.The OS ROM in mine is just an EPROM
with a hand written label - they obviously didn't think it was worth doing a
mask,
Sprow.