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From: jmw@sdchemg (John M. Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amax on a 3000: need MacROM 2.0
Summary: macrom2 won't save roms
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Date: 15 May 91 21:01:16 GMT
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In article <1100@zds-oem.UUCP> easton@zds-oem.UUCP (Jeff Easton) writes:
>In article <2785@public.BTR.COM> timm@public.BTR.COM (Timothy M. Maffett  timm@btr.com) writes:
>>---
>>Here is macrom2.0.  This will allow owners of apples 128k roms AND an Amax
>>cartridge to read in a copy of thier roms, and then in the future start Amax
>>with this copy, instead of having to read in the rom image from the cartridge
>>everytime.
>>   This archive does NOT (of course) include any apple ROM image, only a program
>>to make a disk based copy of the 128k rom you already own.  
>
>  Being a A-MaxII owner, I copied this and tried it to no avail.  The 
>documentation is rather sparse and makes assumptions that you had the 
>previous version.  Has anybody else be able to make this work?
>
[ description of inability to create a rom copy with macrom2]

No; my experience matches yours precisely.  In addition, I see that
John Sparks has also posted macrom2.0, together with a note that he
was also unable to get macrom2 to read the roms.  He was able to
use it to load a copy of the roms that he had created with macrom1
and A-Max 1.

So - could any kind soul out there either clue us in on how to get
macrom2 to work properly, or post a version that does save the roms,
or post macrom1 (so we could use it with our old A-Max 1.x to save
a copy of the roms)?

   John Wright	Chemistry, MS 0314, UCSD, La Jolla,  CA 92093-0314
		jmw@chem.ucsd.edu  jwright@ucsd   (619) 534-3049