On 11-Aug-99, Mike wrote:
>> so an o.s. loading its rom or part of its rom from
>> disk is a huge patch patching itself? :)
> No but the BVPPC patches a ROM to stop the ROM library
> getting priority over the disk based library. So you
> would either need tomake a ROM image to be maped into
> fast RAM, or create some patch to blot out the current
> libraries in OS3.1 ROM which can be loaded from disk
> instead.
IIRC someone is working out a system of flashROM upgradeable Kickstart
chips, to make ROM updates cheap and easy. I'm not sure if they ever
got it working, if they did I would have thought H&P would have used
it, unless they don't have ROM source.
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Tom Waddington, Tainted Waters Productions
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