8 Mar
2001
8 Mar
'01
11:40 p.m.
Since I've got myself a pretty little EPROM burner, and seem to have a lot of
ROMs and ROM sockets around, I thought that it should be worthwhile to create
a central repository for all those ROMs which are so difficult to get
nowadays. Is this a good idea, or has somebody already done it? I don't care
much about copyrights, though I wouldn't want to go against the wishes of the
actual owners of the software contained. Any thoughts?
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9 Mar
9 Mar
7:19 a.m.
Since I've got myself a pretty little EPROM
burner, and seem to have a lot of
ROMs and ROM sockets around, I thought that it should be worthwhile to create
a central repository for all those ROMs which are so difficult to get
nowadays. Is this a good idea, or has somebody already done it? I don't care
much about copyrights, though I wouldn't want to go against the wishes of the
actual owners of the software contained. Any thoughts?
Excellent idea. I was worried about what would happen if I lost the ROMS
in some of my less common machines. I bought a programmer for the purpose
of backing them up. Therefore, I have some ROM images to contribute to
such an archive...
Eric
2:22 p.m.
On 9 Mar 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
Since I've got myself a pretty little EPROM
burner, and seem to have a
lot of ROMs and ROM sockets around, I thought that it should be
worthwhile to create a central repository for all those ROMs which are
so difficult to get nowadays. Is this a good idea, or has somebody
already done it? I don't care much about copyrights, though I wouldn't
want to go against the wishes of the actual owners of the software
contained. Any thoughts?
This would be a great project.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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3:53 p.m.
On 9 Mar 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
I know that as of a couple of years ago Ward Shrake had
archived most of the known ROMs for the various VIC-20 cartridges,
including a lot of rare ones. I believe he was also behind a project
to do the same with the Emerson Arcadia 2001 game console. The last
I heard he had gotten somewhat burned out and was taking a bit of a
break from it all.
Jeff
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Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems:
Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File
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Since I've got myself a pretty little EPROM
burner, and seem to have a
lot of ROMs and ROM sockets around, I thought that it should be
worthwhile to create a central repository for all those ROMs which are
so difficult to get nowadays. Is this a good idea, or has somebody
already done it? I don't care much about copyrights, though I wouldn't
want to go against the wishes of the actual owners of the software
contained. Any thoughts?
This would be a great project. 
5:33 p.m.
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
Doubtless, it is a worthwhile project. However, it is fraught with
difficulty. I am sure that many of us have our own private archive of
EPROM images that we have saved over the years. Doubtless also, is the
likelihood that they were save using different hardware and
software. This equates to different storage formats from straight
binary image to JEDEC and Hex.
But that is the relatively easy part. Imagine the varying schemes that
we have each used in naming the file and the (hopefully) description of
its source and function. Surely correlating all of these is a major, if
not overwhelming, task.
- don
On 9 Mar 2001,
Iggy Drougge wrote:
I know that as of a couple of years ago Ward Shrake had
archived most of the known ROMs for the various VIC-20 cartridges,
including a lot of rare ones. I believe he was also behind a project
to do the same with the Emerson Arcadia 2001 game console. The last
I heard he had gotten somewhat burned out and was taking a bit of a
break from it all.
Jeff
--
Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems:
Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757
Since I've got myself a pretty little EPROM
burner, and seem to have a
lot of ROMs and ROM sockets around, I thought that it should be
worthwhile to create a central repository for all those ROMs which are
so difficult to get nowadays. Is this a good idea, or has somebody
already done it? I don't care much about copyrights, though I wouldn't
want to go against the wishes of the actual owners of the software
contained. Any thoughts?
This would be a great project. 
6:17 p.m.
At 08:33 PM 3/9/01 -0800, Don wrote:
But that is the relatively easy part. Imagine the
varying schemes that
we have each used in naming the file and the (hopefully) description of
its source and function. Surely correlating all of these is a major, if
not overwhelming, task.
I have found such projects to be generally self organizing, specifically
they emerge like crystals in a supersaturated solution. If someone begins
to organize their ROM files and picks a few well defined rules for naming,
representing, and documenting them. Then begins creating a catalog, others
will notice and eventually begin to contribute their own images. The
VECTREX cart project worked like this.
--Chuck
6:58 p.m.
I have found such projects to be generally self
organizing,
specifically they emerge like crystals in a supersaturated solution.
If someone begins to organize their ROM files and picks a few well
defined rules for naming, representing, and documenting them. Then
begins creating a catalog, others will notice and eventually begin
to contribute their own images. The VECTREX cart project worked like
this.
I took a look at Ward's page for the first time in a while.
Two years ago he said he was going to take them down, but they're
both still up, complete with operational links to his files, though
he hasn't updated anything since announcing his 'retirement'. His
VIC-20 ROM archive is over 185 carts, while his Arcadia 2001 archive
is something like 30-35. The documentation for how he did this is
available in a seperate file and the archive for the VIC-20 includes
quite a lot of information on the pinouts and such. The largest of
the files, the 185+ VIC-20 ROM images, is just a little over 1meg.
I forgot about the Vectrex project. I know that some of the
Intellivision carts were made available for an emulator as well.
Then of course you've got the HUGE number of classic ROMs archived in
various places for use with MAME.
Jeff
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Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems:
Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File
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