8 Oct
2004
8 Oct
'04
6:44 a.m.
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Cini, Richard wrote:
Can anyone with Cromemco experience tell me what
loader should be
used to load this software into a machine? I don't recall seeing anything in
the manual that revealed this secret.
Have you examined the data on the tape? Hex/ascii formats are easy to
decode, and binary ones are usually pretty trivial. They are almost always
something dumb like:
leader leader leader...
flag character or sequence
record type (1=data, 2=start addr, 0=stop, that sort of thing)
load address (2 bytes)
byte count (1, 2)
data....
checksum
more records...
ASCII vs. binary, even, would narrow your choices.