[Coco] .BIN to .ROM

[Chad H]

DriveWire .ROMS already run the AUTOEXEC from drive images.  I even have a
modded DriveWire ROM that auto-loads the AUTOEXEC from real floppies.  I
want to be able to embed the .BIN into a EPROM.

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Steve
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 10:37 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] .BIN to .ROM

Chad, I see you posted this message while I was asking what you are trying
to do.

While you can added a boot loaded to the data stream of the segmented blocks
to load them in to their write location in the address space, there are some
other issues to deal with.  The main one being is the data stream of the
.BIN may not fit in the same space as the the ROM. A lot of .BIN are larger
than 16k.

For me, I would added a small boot loader inside the Disk Basic ROM that
would Auto-Load the BIN file.  Just have this new code inside the Disk Basic
ROM look for a AutoLoad.BAT file that includes the name of the file to load
and run.  With a little bit more work, the auto loader program could even
load a BASIC or other types of file format and auto execute them too.

With this solution there is no need to try and convert the file format.

The real advantage here is the end user only needs to to put the name of the
file inside this "AUTOLOAD.BAT" file to run anything they want.

Steve

On 12/24/2013 8:01 AM, Chad H wrote:
> Trying to be able to take any .BIN and flash it to EPROM.  Wish I had a
'bootloader' I could attach to the front of the .BIN data that would mimic
the CLOADM and handle the .BIN data appropriately, then execute.
>
> Sent from my Transformer Infinity
>
>


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