Re: 1541 clone help needed

From: Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela_at_iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 22:34:14 +0300
Message-ID: <20190518193414.GA3869_at_jyty>
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 08:43:13PM -0500, Jim Brain wrote:
>Given Pete's response about putting a JD ROM in and the thing refusing 
>to work, does anyone on list have the drive and would be willing to 
>test?

Could it be that some address or data lines have been swapped on the 
circuit board? In that case, you would have to transform the EPROM image 
accordingly. It should be rather easy to figure out the mapping by 
examining the raw image of the original ROM.

It is an interesting idea that permuting some instructions would thwart 
copyright claims. I wonder if that would really have held up in court.  
Even back in that day, there had been some disputes, such as one between 
Commodore and Bally Midway, regarding Radar Rat Race aka Vic Rat Race 
aka Rally-X.

	Marko
Received on 2020-05-29 22:04:16

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