[Coco] .BIN to .ROM

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

i meant: YOU CANNOT tell what is data or code...

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
<retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Again, when in rom you are stuck on $C000 addresses. Will your program
> convert all non-relocatable jumps, branches and read/writes to it ?
> That's just not possible... you can tell what is data and what is code
> on such platforms.
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> If the code is not relocatable it wont be possible to run it in other address.
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> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Very interesting.  That might just be the info I needed.  I can write a
>> program if that's what it takes.  Curious to me though that the answer to
>> converting a .BIN to a "WAV or MP3" was so complicated when you can just
>> CSAVEM/CLOADM, etc and record the audio as WAV or MP3.  Oh well.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
>> Behalf Of Brett Gordon
>> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 7:16 PM
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] .BIN to .ROM
>>
>> i dont know of a converter prog, but heres the specs
>>
>> http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.sys.tandy/2007-05/msg00020
>> .html
>>
>> it shouldn't too hard to write a proggy to do this
>>
>> Brett
>> On Dec 23, 2013 7:30 PM, "Chad H" <chadbh74 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Can someone please advise a simple and reliable method to convert a .BIN
>>> file to a .ROM file?  I can extract the .BIN on my PC if need be.   I seem
>>> to recall a ROM extraction function in the RETRIEVE.EXE included with
>>> the CoCo 2 emulator I have that was used for extracting the CoCo ROM
>>> to a DISK, then you use the RETRIEVE to grab the ROM data off the
>>> floppy into a  .ROM file on the PC.  I doubt this would work for many
>>> .BIN files though, especially since many don't start at &HC000.
>>>
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