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From: logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ROM disassembly for TOS -- A suggestion.
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Date: 11 Sep 89 05:13:45 GMT
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saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
> So--would you like it more if Atari did or didn't publish the ROM code?

Here is a suggestion -- for any shareware/or other entrepeneur.

You want to sell TOS 1.4 disassembled and commented code, but you want to
avoid copyright hassels with Atari.  The answer is that you don't need to
sell the TOS 1.4 listing because every perspective customer already has a
computer readable copy available to him (and your niffy little program.)

ERGO, all you do is sell a customized disassebler which has tables of
mnemonic labels and comments -- what all -- and your customer has to run
it on his machine to generate his own listings.

People with developer documentation of TOS 1.4 will have a head start on this,
but they must be sure they don't use the same "comment" language as Atari
used (maybe even different labels.)

Good luck.

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