Re: Subject: Re: 3016 PET and BTX Decoder ROMs

From: Andre Fachat (a.fachat_at_gmx.net)
Date: 2000-07-09 22:02:02

Hi!

Are copies of that ROMs on funet?
If not, can you upload them there?

Andre

Ethan Dicks wrote:
> 
> --- Lance Lyon <black@gco.apana.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The C, D, E and F ROMs would constitute a complete set of ROMs for Basic
> > > 3.  If it has been upgraded to Basic 4.0, the B socket would also be
> > > occupied, otherwise it is a special ROM.  The "9" socket always contained
> > > special ROMs.  Those do not sound like the standard Commodore labels.
> >
> > Speaking of extra ROM's in PETs, my Basic 4 equipped 3032 has the following
> > extras:
> >
> > UD3 - EXTRAMON 9G
> >            $9000 BAS 4
> 
> A Machine Language monitor that is much better than TIM (the one stuffed into
> the C= ROMs).  It's at $9000 (thus the UD3) and works with the BASIC 4 kernel.
> Various versions exist for other memory spaces (so you can put it in a
> different ROM socket if you have other firmware that isn't so flexible, like
> some of the commercial entities were).
> 
> > UD4 - (handwritten label)
> >            B-AID
> >            @A 70 (or perhaps 40)
> 
> BASIC-AID.  Somewhere, I have the printed docs to this, but expect that
> there is an electronic version floating around.  It was a common set of
> extensions to BASIC like print spooling, auto-renumbering, appending, etc.
> 
> My primary computer from 1979 through 1983 was a 40-column, BASIC 3 PET
> with a single tape drive.  I had BASIC-AID, PAICS Toolkit, ROM-RABBIT (a
> tape accelerator) and SuperMon in my ROM sockets.  I used them daily.  It
> was a fact of life that having 12K of user-defined ROM code made the
> difference on a diskless machine.  It saved endless loading of the same
> utilities every time I locked up the machine (which was often because I
> was writing Machine Language).
> 
> -ethan
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