15 Mar
2007
15 Mar
'07
12:58 a.m.
On Mar 14, 2007, at 8:54 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
Ahh, that answers that question. :) I'm about to hit the hay
right now, but I will see about reading some EPROMs tomorrow and will
let people know of their availability.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Actually, yes,
I was thinking along the lines of something which
actually made use of the original firmware. That quite possible
isn't practical though as presumably at least some vendors did
something really oddball rather than using an off the shelf CPU :)
But yes, "warts and all" through use of the original ROMs would
seem ideal to me (from an accurate as possible emulation point of
view). There's almost certainly far less of an issue with
publishing these ROMs for terminals I would have thought - lots of
the companies in question have either gone under or are hardly
likely to care (unlike the situation with MAME and games
manufacturers)
Along these lines -- does anyone have ROM images (preferably
program & character roms) for the firmware in, say, a VT100? This
discussion has piqued my interest in writing a hardware-level VT100
emulator (just what I need, another software project to distract me
from the dozen or so I haven't yet finished...). I own a VT100 but
I have no means to read the firmware off of it -- if anyone out
there has an image I'd love to play around with it. Any good
sources for hardware info on the VT100?