[Coco] .BIN to .ROM

[Steve]

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.
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> Sent from my Transformer Infinity
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