Re: ROM dumping woes (was: Re: Swedish CBM 3032)

From: Ethan Dicks (ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 2002-02-06 20:10:29

--- peter karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
> These dumps are broken, there are several bytes missing from them. The
> question is: did they get lost when I dumped them to tape on the PET or
> when I read them back on the VIC? Does anyone know if the clock speed
> differences can cause problems here?
> 
> Basically, I saved them doing
> 
> 10 OPEN1,1,1,"ROM DUMP"
> 20 FORI=45056TO65535:PRINT#1,CHR$(PEEK(I));:NEXT
> 30 CLOSE1:RUN

I think you want to convert the data to hex if you are going to do a simple
read/write program.  Commas and nulls and carriage returns could cause the tape
routines heartburn.  It's probably on the input side, but I'm not certain of
that.

-ethan


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