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From: jlemon@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Jonathan Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ROM
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Date: 17 May 89 21:50:26 GMT
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In article <8905171833.AA01200@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:
>Would I have any legal problems with Atari if I disassembled the ROM
>code, altered it to suit my individual needs, and then burned a new set
>of ROMs for my machine?  I also stated that the ROMS would be used only
>in my machine and that (1) I would not release the original code to
>anyone and (2) I wouldn't release the bastardized code to anyone
....
>What do the rest of you netters think?

I think that as soon as I get some spare time on my hands (read that: finish
my finals, which I am supposed to be studying for) then I'm going to make
my _own_ version of the ROMs, starting with replacing the damned character
set with something more aesthetically pleasing.  I'm getting tired of 
booting and re-running bw_font everytime it gets wiped out of memory. (And
I've got a Mega2)

As for Atari:
   1. I bought it, I paid for it, it's mine now.
   2. I'm not making any money off of it, nor depriving Atari of sales
   3. Who's going to tell them? (Hi there, Allan!)

Besides, isn't there a completely disassembled, commented listing of the
Atari ROMs published somewhere in Germany?  I pulled the following off
the net last summer: 

	Discompilation of GEMDOS
	"Das TOS-listing BIOS/GEMDOS/VDI"
	 by Kramer, Riebl, Huebner

Although I never followed it up 'cause I suspect it is in German, which I
will learn _AFTER_ I fix up those ROMs. :-)
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