[Coco] .BIN to .ROM

[Chad H]

Here's the thing.  All of the .BIN's I would be interested in doing this
with can be LOADM from disk, which should mean that they don't use cartridge
space and they were never on cartridge.  Those BIN's that used to be on
cartridge, well I just find the CCC/ROM files for those.

I just wished I knew a lot more about assembly than I do.  I figure a tiny
bootloader followed by the .BIN file data and voila.. to simple for me to
make happen I guess.

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of S Klammer
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 3:15 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] .BIN to .ROM

Perhaps knowing (if you have not already mentioned) which BIN you're wanting
to put into an EPROM.  If the BIN can be loaded into $C000 and EXEC from
there, then wouldn't it also work in a cart EPROM?

As an aside, some 'online' carts have BIN for the filename extension.

Merry Christmas to everyone!
On Dec 24, 2013 12:32 PM, "Chad H" <chadbh74 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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