[Coco] Help with dumping various EPROMS

Bill Nobel b_nobel at hotmail.com
Sun May 10 22:19:46 EDT 2015


Hi Ron, Although Art’s comment will work, but it will miss the vectors from $FFF0 to $FFFF which are the key vectors for power up etc..  I use a method of reading ROMS from my eprom burner which is a TL866CS, nice little unit.  It reads just about anything.

Bill Nobel

> On May 10, 2015, at 8:08 PM, Ron <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Art,
> 
> I really appreciate the assistance!
> 
> I purchased ADOS3/Ext ADOS3 many years ago and love it!  Still trying to hunt down the diskettes I had for them (so I could customize them).
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> -Ron
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/10/2015 9:00 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>> They all start with $C000.  An 8K EPROM, which I believe CDOS is, will end
>> at $DFFF.  A 16K EPROM should be saved up to $FEFF (Extended ADOS3).  I
>> think RGBDOS is 8K, not sure there.  If it is in a 2764 EPROM, it is 8K, if
>> it is in a 27128 EPROM, it may be 16K.
>> 
>> In all cases, if you're saving from a CoCo 3, you must do a POKE &HFFDE,0
>> prior to the SAVEM, from a WIDTH 32 screen, to put the CoCo 3 into ROM mode.
>> 
>> Art
>> 
>> On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Ron <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> New to the list and recently getting back to using my CoCo after more
>>> years than I'd like to count...  :)
>>> 
>>> I opened up one of my Distro Super Controllers and noticed I populated 3
>>> of the 4 available banks with various EPROMS I had burned a while back.
>>> These include Extended ADOS3, RGB-DOS & CDOS.  I'd like to dump all of
>>> these to diskette for backups just in case I would ever want to burn
>>> additional copies or use them in an emulator (if possible).
>>> 
>>> I'm still trying to remember how to do this - I know I can do it with a
>>> SAVEM command, but need to know the address ranges.  These are all 28 pin
>>> EPROMS.
>>> 
>>> Can anyone assist?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> -Ron
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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