On Jun 2, 2016 7:36 PM, "John R. Hogerhuis" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Brian White <[email protected]> wrote: > > > * I can neither buy nor make my own rex today. (or can I?) > > > > True. > > > * Nor can I safely predict that anyone else could a few years from now. > > Unless that changes, I don't care to spend time and energy figuring out cool > > stuff that depends on it. > > > > Well you're new here. I consider it temporary unavailability. Consider > that the reason it is currently unavailable is because most of the > people that wanted one bought one and the supply ran out. > > But ok. You can't get one short of buying one second hand. > > > * rex is incompatible with every 2nd thing I want to play with, so even if I > > had a rex, I would still have to remove it half the time, and so there > > remains a need for a self programmable rom that works like the original rom > > and isn't incompatible with anything. > > > > Where did you get that idea? > > You can install it and just leave it in. That's the whole idea The opt > rom socket is for ... opt roms. Among other things, REX lets you > software switch between option roms. It supports every optrom out > there. > > So... confused. > > -- John.
The newest rex now has the option to switch between main system roms not just option roms. And you can program them in-place with software, no external programmer. ... wait, your own name appears right on the rex wiki page, on which also appears the section on incompatibility. -- bkw
