Re: need help with identifying some ROMs

From: groepaz_at_gmx.net
Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 19:28:23 +0200
Message-ID: <6035147.eO5KgaWL5Y_at_rakete>
Am Montag, 2. Mai 2022, 19:00:44 CEST schrieb groepaz_at_gmx.net:
> Hy!
> 
> In order to specify better what ROMs come with VICE and/or which the user
> needs to provide, i have started renaming them to, and listing them in the
> documentation with, their actual part numbers. For some i could not find
> them - it would be cool if those of you who own these devices - or know the
> part numbers - could provide them. Perhaps you can also point me to another
> archive than zimmers (a list of part numbers doesnt really help).
> 
> In particular:
> 
> - mps801.bin (MPS 801 charset)
> - mps803.bin (MPS 803 charset)
> - nl10.bin (NL 10 charset)
> 
> - (we do not provide this in VICE) the SCPU ROM (this is an eprom with a
> sticker on it, i am interested in what is printed on the sticker)
> 
> - Last not least some localized C128 Kernal ROMs. These are somewhat
> strange:
> 
> kernalfi (finnish) - The editor part matches none of the files on zimmers,
> the kernal part matches kernalpart.finnish1.bin
> kernalfr (french) - Matches editor.french.bin+kernalpart.french.bin
> kernalit (italian) - Matches editor.italian.bin+kernalpart.italian.bin. The
> editor part matches kernal.italian.325168-02.bin, but the kernal part is
> different.
> kernalno (norwegian) - Matches
> editor.norwegian.bin+kernalpart.norwegian.bin. The editor part matches
> kernal.norwegian.325177-02.bin, but the kernal part is different.
> 
> For all of the above it would be acceptable to replace the files that we
> currently have in VICE - IF we know that the files we replace with are
> actually newer revisions than the ones we have, and we know their part
> numbers. (That is also true for any other ROM files in the VICE tree - if
> you spot such cases, please tell)
> 
> You can find the files we provide with VICE in the snapshot release on
> github: https://github.com/VICE-Team/svn-mirror/releases
> 
> and the files i compared with on zimmers:
> http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/firmware/computers/
> 
> Thanks for your help!

I forgot: there is also an unidentified german character ROM for the PET :)

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