[NTLK] ROM dump

[Matthias Melcher]

> On Oct 30, 2023, at 23:50, Pawel Piotrowski <newton at indigi.co.uk> wrote:
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>> On 30 Oct 2023, at 22:45, Victor Rehorst <victor at chuma.org> wrote:
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>> That's ... interesting.  Dumping the ROM while NewtonOS is running doesn't actually give you exactly what is on the ROM chips - the MMU maps a few RAM pages into the ROM's address space.  The only way to get a truly clean ROM dump is to use a hardware dumper like Matthias'.
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>> Can't wait to get my hands on this and see what's up …
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> I just put the files on my mini server.
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> http://software.applenewton.co.uk/?dir=-%3DAppleNewtonFanResources%3D-/ROM

Sorry. Both files are corrupt. As Victor said, using the ROM Board reader would be better, but that means taking the MessagePad apart and removing the ROM board. I think I still have a spare reader that I could send as a loaner.

 - Matthias