Date   : Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:09:43 +0100
From   : Jeff Gaines <jeff@...>
Subject: BBC Rom File Structure

Hello Group,

  I am putting together a small app to manage the ROMs in BeebEm,
  ROMMgr doesn't seem to be able to manage it, since it looks like the
  structure of the .cfg files has changed, and cfg seems to have the
  path to BeebEn hard coded so I can't use it.

  Most of it seems straightforward but I would like to read in
  information from the ROM image like name, copyright etc. From
  examining a few ROMs in a hex editor they don't have 'standard'
  layouts, I guess they can't because the length of the name will
  differ and also the length of the name of the copyright holder.

  I have tried a Google and a poke round the (large number) of Beeb
  sites without success.

  Does anybody know how the structure of these ROM files is set up, or
  where might be a  good place to find out?

  Many thanks.

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Regards
Jeff Gaines
Damerham Hampshire UK