Mail Archives: opendos/2000/05/08/13:12:08
On Wed, 3 May 2000 Tukasa Sasaki asked for ROMmng tools:
> I am looking for ROMMING TOOL of OpenDOS v7.01.
> please give all of the ROMMING TOOL to me,
> if you have ROMMING TOOL ,and ROM initialize SRC codes too.
Sorry, but the published OpenDOS 7.01 MRS kit did not include
any ROMming tools, although you might find out a little on
how it works by looking at the IBMBIO source code in there.
All this stuff was (is???) part of the commercial DR-DOS 7.02
System Builder s Kit (SBK) which came with a dozend of printed
books and a CD including all the necessary stuff for OEMs.
However, AFAIR, not even the SBK contained the sources for
ROM/Flash filesystems, the DR PalmDOS PCMCIA/Socket Services
stuff, and the ExecuteInPlace (XIP) and Personal Information Manager
(PIM) plug-ins for MINIMAX (a specialized issue of the DR-DOS
TASKMGR), which all is at least partially related to Embedding
and ROMming.
I don t know, if Lineo still sells it. The price for the SBK was
reasonable for professional developers and OEMs, but I think it
was unfortunately way to expensive for freewheeling DR-DOS activists
or hobbyists...
You might have some luck finding (non-DR-DOS) related ROMming
stuff on SimTel. I haven t checked out myself, but since RxDOS
is now also under GPL, it might include some ROMming tools,
too (see www.freedos.org for RxDOS). Maybe this is of use for
your application.
Hope it helps,
Matthias
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