[Coco] Some details on CoCo 1 ROM burning
Charles Hudson
charles484 at twc.com
Sat Dec 18 07:36:33 EST 2021
As described earlier I have a CoCo 1 which came with Color Basic 1.1 in
ROM and I am interested in fitting a TCDD controller and drive to the
system. Accordingly I need to upgrade the ROMs and add Extended Color
Basic.
I have obtained MCM68766C35 EPROMs, blanked them, obtained a Needham's
EMP-20 programmer and the DOS software, verified the parallel port
operation of the EMP-20 with a '586 VLB machine and downloaded the CoCo
ROM images from Tandy Color Computer Archive. I plan to use at least CB
1.2 and ECB 11. I know the ECB ROM goes in the higher-numbered IC slot,
left if facing from the front.
Now I come to actually programming the EPROMs and two questions occur to
me: Which format are these ROM images? Binary, Intel hex and Motorola
S hex are possibilities (among others); I would assume Motorola hex
format for these. And should I load each ROM image with a 00 starting
address in the ROM and let the hardware sort out the addressing?
Just checking... Thanks for your replies.
-CH-
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