On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Richard A. Cini, Jr. wrote: [snip] You are right Richard. It is one thing to read the code and another to modify it. I started on the KIM-1 board (even tho the ROMs are fully documented in the manuals - only to find - they didn't quite match up (it was a change to the good tho 8-) Then I did the same with my VIM-1 board and as it also contains the BASIC ROM - I did it to that one too 8-) Actually, I wrote a 6502 2-pass assembler with Macro extenstions just to play around with it 8-) And as soon as my AIM-65 comes in from that guy I can't mention who sold them all - lock stock and barrel to some one else - and is an Engineer - therefore closer to God that the rest of us. Of course this "pure speculation" and is simply "a lie" and I regret that I have to "insinuate" this statement. The 6502 assembler is written in Perl - and about as fast as a sloth - it still works well and outputs Intel HEX code and my own. I am working on having it also output Motorola 'S' records but haven't done much with it lately. To really S T R E T C H myself, I also wrote a 6502 hardware emulator in Perl that uses Sockets to act like parts of the hardware. This all runs fine under Linux so I have found out the hardware emulator is a little harder to work that I thought. If anybody wants to look at it or get a copy - I could put it up on the FTP site. You will have to get your own copies of the ROMs tho. Unless someone can verify the legal status of the copyrights on the ROMs. I am a little busy setting up Rescue trips to dig much further into THAT moras of mumbo-jumbo. BC