Re: [hatari-users] TOS 1.0 floppy bootrom

[Matthias Arndt <marndt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

I did the mentioned test at AF a few days ago.

My hatari (a few week old hg build) starts with the unpatched ROM and
can load at least TOS 2.06 or Emutos 0.9 that way.

Proof of concept but I also concur: it is only a case of nostalgia and
curiosity, not really a useful thing. Can be done, but that'S it.

Regards,
Matthias


Am Montag, den 18.03.2013, 17:05 +0100 schrieb Vincent Rivière: 
> On 18/03/2013 15:32, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> > The comments on the mail thread indicate that Hatari actually works with it:
> > ---------
> > I patched it by adding TOS 1.00 header and moving overwritten code at begin
> > to empty area at end. Now Steem and Hatari accept it (so, emulators look TOS
> > header for validating).
> 
> The idea was to run the unpatched ROM :-\
> 
> >> It would be cool if Hatari could support that ROM.
> >
> > To me it seems rather useless... :-)
> 
> Is any Atari stuff useful nowadays?
> 
> Hatari claims to be the most compatible ST hardware emulator, so it 
> should at least be able to run any official Atari ROM.
> 
> > Is there any program that works only with that ROM version, like there
> > are programs (e.g. Squixx) that work only with TOS v1.00?
> 
> I don't know.
> 
> But such ROM probably expects a special OS floppy, and I could add 
> support in EmuTOS to mimic such floppy, in order to run EmuTOS on such 
> hardware (as I did for the Amiga 1000 Kickstart floppy).
> If I can't test, that will not happen.
> I don't say that will happen, even if I could test ;-)
> 

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