>I have had diffiuclty finding a IIsi or IIfx rom sim >to place in my SE/30. You're not the only one. I remember a thread on this list when someone who had access to a large number of IIsi machines that were to be thrown out opened all of them and found a socketed ROM only in one in ten or twenty machines. Most have soldered ROMs, like mine (sigh-). IIfx ROMs are easier to get, I have one from a spare mobo, but I don't think anyone would give up a working blackbird for a 32-bit clean SE/30 that would work maybe or not. Results reported here were a mixed blessing. Thanks Goodness there's Mode 32 v.7.5.
>I have a IIsi, but the rom bank >is blank, so it must be soldered on the motherboard >somewhere. (Why is there is an empty rom slot?) You can find empty ROM slots in a number of Macs. They were meant for ROM upgrades that would supersede the soldered ROM, but AFAIK that never actually happened. >In the past, I have used a program to "copy" the rom of a >Macplus to use in a game simulator on a PowerMac >(i.e., Macmame). Would it be possible to use this >program to copy the rom from a IIsi and use it in an >SE/30? Could that soft "rom" be copied onto a blank >rom? > That's beyond my scope; as a wild guess, I wouldn't think it to be very straightforward: the hardware ROMs are organised in the way the CPU and OS exspect them to be, while the "soft" rom you burn on a blank may have all the info, but not at the right address. But I can be completely wrong on that, it may as well work (why should MacMame or, say, Basilisk II be able to deal with a "soft" ROM and a Mac should not?) OTOH, I can't remember to have seen a dicussion of this possibility here. Maybe copyright issues? But there are people on the list who know much better. Cheers, OM /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
