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|    Nick Westgate to Jason Harper    |
|    Re: Reading the IIgs Text ROM data from     |
|    07 Feb 22 23:43:28    |
      From: nick.westgate@gmail.com              On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 4:39:54 PM UTC+10, Jason Harper wrote:       > (I'm the commenter from stackexchange mentioned in the first post.)        >        > I did some digging through old disk images containing even older disk images       (watch Inception for details), and found the source code where I'd actually       implemented character ROM reading on the IIgs. I got the technique directly       from an Apple engineer        back in the day - it's entirely possible I'm the only programmer outside of       Apple who ever used it.               Thanks for digging through your meta-images!              Apart from the obvious questions, I'd also be interested to know why you       actually wanted/needed to do this. Was it for fun or a project?              > I'm pretty sure that all the registers involved are part of the Mega II       chip, so it's not actually specific to the IIgs.               Yeah, I noticed in the hardware reference that the character generator ROM is       part of the Mega II, so that makes sense.              Cheers,       Nick.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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