Date   : Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:52:01 GMT
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: 29F010 was Tube ROM but diverged.

Alan Williams wrote:
> I am going to revise two existing utilities by adding flash support
> code, one a transitory version of SRLOAD, and the second a piece of

I've put public read access on the source for the sideways ROM
tools at http://mdfs.net/Software/CommandSrc/SROM if they're of any
use.

> basic that saves roms out of your machine with a header appended which
> turns them into a self loading executable.

I wrote something similar back in the '80s. I couldn't track it
down so used an MCODE'd BASIC program:

 REM > %.Word
 REM Load ROM image and enter View
 :
 A%=TRUE:ON ERROR A%=FALSE
 IF A%:*RWrite External
 ON ERROR OFF
 */SRLoad %.$.ROMs.TextEd.ViewJ300hi Q I R
 *Word

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