Stupid BIOS tricks - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Feb 1998

I pretty much knew it wouldn't work, but hoped that maybe it would
work just like a normal BIOS... anyway, does anyone have that circuit
cellar article? What is "inexpensive"?

...

> I just downloaded the assembly source to a generic XT bios. It  compiles,
...
 > but I can't apparently run it from a command
line, or boot off a  floppy
...
   disk that has
the thing rawritten on it. 
Um - what are you *expecting* it to do when you run it from the command
line or from floppy disk?

  Is there a way I COULD do it
 without getting a ROM burner? 
Sure - there are adapters that let you put code into a small CMOS  static
...
 RAM with an adapter that fits on the ROM socket.  One
of Steve  Ciarcia's
...
 early Circuit Cellar articles in _BYTE_ shows how to do
this.  But if I
were you I'd just build or buy an EPROM programmer - they're by no  means
...
 expensive.

Tim.

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