Re: VIC-1001 ROM sighting

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_cyberspace.org)
Date: 2001-09-17 07:00:20

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Marko Mäkelä wrote:

> Daniel Benson, who has been trying to sell his Commodore MAX (a.k.a.
> UltiMax or VIC-10) and Commodore VIC-1001 (Japanese VIC-20) on eBay, sent
> me a dump of the 901486-02 KERNAL ROM.  It seems to use an $aa fill byte
> instead of the $ff used in the 901486-06 (NTSC-M KERNAL).
> 
> I didn't analyze the code differences yet, since the character ROM dump
> was incorrect (4096 zero bytes).  The ROM dump is available from
> <URL:http://www.funet.fi/pub/cbm/firmware/computers/vic20/>.  I'll also
> copy the 901460-02 character ROM dump there, once I obtain it.

I put this image in a ROM and put it in a VIC-20.  The computer comes up,
but I cannot read from the hard drive.  If I read byte by byte, I can read
a couple sectors before it hangs up.









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