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From: dyer@atari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: RE: RE: Upgrading a 1040 to 4 Megs
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Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 09:51:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 11 09:51:15 1987
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> [Alex Leavens claims it will take a week to change the US Roms to
>  the different european ones]
> Alex you are joking, aren't you? (Last time the german ROM's had nearly
> half a year delay)

It takes Mike Schmal, ROM Guru (AKA the Human Make), a single day
to make ALL sets of ROMs.  But there is an initial delay for
doing language translations.  (For instance, a set of Swahili
ROMs would probably take a couple months, since no one here
speaks it well, and the people who *do* speak it well don't
necessarily have ST experience).

Another problem was that the text for the German ROMs is
significantly larger than the text for the US ROMs.  The
11/20 release of the US ROMs had exactly 14 bytes left for
expansion, so some code had to be crunched to make German
TOS fit.

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