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General Category => Amstrad CPC hardware => Topic started by: MartinW on 22:57, 24 March 13

Title: Getting started with ROMs
Post by: MartinW on 22:57, 24 March 13
Hi all,

I've been having a bit of a play about over the last week and when it comes to real hardware I always seem to end up coming back to ROMs in some form or other. I was playing about with some code samples and sticking them onto the real hardware, then trying to bring the stuff up in Maxam but the disk version was a real pain in the a*se!

I had a bit of a nose about at ROM boards and things and keep seeing reference to statements like "of course everyone's got MegaROM/Flash's these days" - yet I can't see anyone selling them! Is anyone doing the circuit boards for either? I'm more than proficient enough to build one but I've never had any PCBs made...

Is that generally the accepted way to go?

Thanks,
Martin.
Title: Re: Getting started with ROMs
Post by: TheCorfiot on 00:29, 25 March 13
Our man Bryce is the hardware guru extraordinare and creator of Megaflash, i'm sure he will be along soon to tell you more but please read up his excellent article on the Wiki..

It would be interesting for the group as a whole to compile a definitive list of the best and essential roms that we should all have loaded onto the Megaflash...

TC  :)
Title: Re: Getting started with ROMs
Post by: TFM on 05:44, 25 March 13
Well... just can tell you what I use: RDOS, Maxam, Protext, Strakos, X-DDOS, OCP-Art Studio, FutureOS, ROManager (including the Booster to enable ROMs 16-31), Softbrenner, Uridium on ROM and BCPL.
Title: Re: Getting started with ROMs
Post by: Bryce on 09:50, 25 March 13
Hi Martin,
     in case you haven't found it yet, this is the MegaFlash: MegaFlash - CPCWiki (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/MegaFlash)
And if you'd like one let me know (send me a PM).

Bryce.
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