Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU!cmm1 From: cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: re: ROMS Message-ID: <8905180415.AA09470@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 18 May 89 04:15:28 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 62 Here is a sample of the feedback from Genie. All this response (and more) took less than 24 hours! Apparently, I made a mistake about the TOS upgrade. Hmmmm, I know I saw that article. Tramiel must have been talking about the Blitter upgrade instead. Sorry about the apparent error on my part. I guess my brain is turning to mush due to all the high octane I've been taking in this week. (I graduated today so I think I owe myself a few (read MANY) cold ones.) Anyway, here's a bit of the GEnie-speak for you: ------------ Category 4, Topic 62 Message 14 Wed May 17, 1989 SANDY.W [SysOp] at 10:49 EDT Er...where did Atari say TOS 1.4 would not be available for the 520/1040?? As the chips will be in both the 6 and 2 chip set I don't see where they could be considered machine specific at all. As for copyright, some copyrights do contain a clause against alteration, but whether it would be worth it to enforce it in a single case is another decision. Actually, if you don't intend to sell it, and it will be for your use only, why bother to publicize it?? (If this topic is going to be another copyright discussion, it is going to be moved to Cat 18 ) ------------ Category 4, Topic 62 Message 15 Wed May 17, 1989 D.MCNAMEE [Dan2@Atari] at 14:51 EDT Chris, Where did you hear that Atari is not going to make TOS 1.4 available to 520/1040 owners?? We have announced that TOS 1.4 will be available as an upgrade in BOTH 2 AND 6 CHIP SETS, and WILL BE AVAILABLE AS AN UPGRADE TO ALL ST OWNERS (520/1040 included) AS AN UPGRADE. Dan 2 @ Atari ------------ Category 4, Topic 62 Message 16 Wed May 17, 1989 TOWNS at 16:18 EDT Yeah, what Dan said! As for the legalities.. We own ALL rights to the code that is in those ROMs. From what I am told, it is illegal to do what you would like to do. But, if you are going to do it, I can't stop you. I will remind you of a couple of things: AES is line-f'ed. This will make it VERY hard to modify. As for the rest of the code in the ROMs. It is designed to be in a certain place at boot up. If you start to fool around with it too much you will break it. But, if you feel like wasting your time.. go for it. ------------ Chris Mauritz cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu No points for 2nd BEST!