Re: [B2-devel] Supporting MacOS 9.X ROMs

[Christian B. <cb...@th...>]

Hi!

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:39:01AM +0200, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> Would it be possible to move the ROM image decompression from
> system-specific parts (Unix/main_unix.cpp, BeOS/main_beos.cpp) to a common
> place such as rom_patches.cpp?

This would be better.

> 2) At some point it might be preferable to differentiate the old 
> NewWorld ROM that is fully LZSS compressed from the new NewWorld ROM 
> that is parcels-based.

Yup.

> 3) I noticed that there are many assumptions that specific code to be 
> patched is to be found at some specified offset.

Well, they all were at these offsets in the ROMs I had. :-)

> 4) Could it be possible to have SheepShaver CVS commits forwarded to 
> basilisk-cvs@ too ?

This should work now.

> 5) Do you think that the 'prop' parcels are supposed to be inserted into 
> the decoded ROM image according to the drivers that would have been 
> loaded on the real machine?

I'm only familiar with MacOS <=8 ROMs and I don't know or think anything. :-)

> 6) BTW, what system do you use?

7.6.1, 8.1 and 8.5.

Bye,
Christian

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