Others - ROMkadrom (humor).

(C) U # 74


      "But what is strange is that unintelligible
all, this is how the authors can take
similar stories, I confess, it is really quite 
incomprehensible, that's for sure ... No, no, do not 
understand. " 

                      NV Gogol, "The Nose"



   On the question of firmware ROM

            drama

              in

        3 acts,

       but with a happy end


                     "... In addition, NEP

                allows you to fully identify

                  all counter-revolutionary

                              elements. "

                 From Form 20-ies


               INTRODUCTION

 In mid-April, about two hours
afternoon, I sat by the window at his Pentagon and thinking 
about a few things once (Ed.: Also I found Windows). Outside 
the window shone a piercing The spring sun, and conjures up 
thoughts of impending changes in the nature ... 

 Wanted not only to join
change, but change all around
familiar and because some do not fit the spirit, which was 
saturated, it seems the entire world outside. 

 Then I looked for new ways to sockets
TR-DOS'a number 5.03 and realized that I wanted
change in the first place ...

 In my case history in the "complaint"
stated:


       TR-DOS V5.03, BASITS 128

and the column "initial treatment":


           reflash ROM.

 Disease has progressed with each day
more and in order to prevent death, I had to look for a 
physician possessing drugs necessary for successful recovery 
normal life, such as: programmer and ...



                  EVERYTHING!


    (This is so then I thought ...)

        (Ed.: In naive)



               STEP 1


    "Seek and yea shall find ... new problems

                                 Axiom

 The first phase of my ordeal was held in
a low intensity war without opposition
use of WMD and other radical
of global solutions to current problems.

 As it turned out, sign "Radio components" (or something like 
that) did not provide the existence of such a devaysa 
"Programmer". At one point, I still stumbled upon the 
announcement: "Flashing ROMs - 5p., Erasure - 1p. "Joy was

premature, since this
the device has written only with ROM ROM
I also needed a version of the file -
ROM ", implying the presence of kakogolibo companies connected 
:-)) to the programmer (or vice versa ...). 

 I pre-tested on behalf of the emulsion Shalaev, Uglekova 
(incidentally, great tenk'yu Max'u Piwamoto for fix)

and R80 (well, the names have gone :-)) all the available 
spectrum me to your favorite portal Speccy and stopped on the 
Bulletin with the 6.05E 128-m Vaska, reworked by a resident, as 
well as something to ponDravilOsYa nicknamed Gluk Reset Servis, 
although the scheme activate it in my presence was not.


 And as you know, all trudnodostyazhimoe
has a higher gravitational pull than readily available.
Therefore I tripled their efforts and soon
moved the business off the ground ...

 As it turns out, is now multiplied
everywhere services for cash
machines are amazing programmers, through which the experts of 
the aforementioned organizations to help our new bourgeoisie to 
make any trading business sverhpribylnym by

Some non-documented (for
tax) (Ed.: Here and are given military secrets) features
modified firmware cass.


  Thus, it is time to gather stones together ...

 I went into one of the offices blizlezhashih
Booking service and asked the most interesting I have a 
question, after which he was forwarded to nekoemomu staid 
gentleman with a 3-pound chain of yellow metal in the neck, 
stranded owner of the institution. He became interested in

devaysom, which required to flash ROM. Hearing that ROM 27512 
is designed for certain computer SPECTRUM, he was keenly 
interested, as it turned out that he was once engaged to build 
and sell ... (Ed.: As is sometimes a small world)


 Further, within 20 minutes I covered him
current status of the platform
SPECCY-compatible, after which he personally took me to an 
adjacent building where immediately produces repair and

services of all kinds of trade
trash. Working people was diverted from
work and advised that
that the companion (ie I) has a desire to write yourself a few 
ROM's, and this world is obliged to obtain all the best

as if it were not deign to appear. The people spoke in the 
sense that it always please ...

 Then I remembered another burning
aspect of the problem - namely, the payment
(Taking into account the contingent mersedesovosotovy clientele 
of this establishment) on the boss imposingly waved his hand 
and said: "You - for free." We parted and in a cheerful state 
of mind I went home. However, soon

My mood darkened slightly, so
I realized that I had never seen clear information on how to 
write files BASIC and sput-dos in the 27,512 Pentagon.

But it was Friday, and therefore not for
mountains on Sunday and Spectrum tusovka on
book market in the city of Samara, where I hoped to get the 
necessary information. 



               STEP 2


        "In all matters not say anything, I quietly

         All questions will be

                              answer ... "

                      Picnic, "Character"

 On Sunday, I surveyed people spektrumsovmestimogo for order
flash ROM Speck and was disappointed no clear answers. In 
principle, All comments were in one:

- A hell knows!
And this secret was closely guarded not
just for me! Then I expressed my
assumptions, suffered pereryvaniem
mountains of paper and electronic literature
SPECCY:


              # 0000 - 128;

              # 4000 - 48;

              # 8000 - DOS;

             # C000 - Empty.

 As a result of a short debate it was decided that a different 
way and not be moget, especially since someone from coming up 
again on my most popular over the last time, the question be 
safely described as the same order of entry ... 

 On Monday morning, void sumnyashesya,
after coming from the night shift, I went to flash ROM-hee, to 
read: 


         128 remix 4 resident, 48, Dos 6.05e, Empty;

         128 remix 4 resident, 48, Dos 6.05e, Gluk;

              as well as a test of ALXR at 2,764 th.

 The recording process took place without problems, but
Imagine my disappointment when
none of ROMok did not want to work,
even a test!
 I erred on the fact that sglyukavil pretzel, writing ROM-hee 
(the thought of applying for 1 foot instead of the 27,512 or 
land neDOSEN ROM2 me for some reason had not occurred,

although it might help me to see 128
menus (but not TYRDOS), as I now understand).

 During the next Sunday I will complain to the people about the 
lack of effect of my actions and all of a sudden SHAITAN 
offered me their services for the firmware Using one hacking in 
this case the person. Once again, I perk ... 

 In the end, after a week, I got my hands on written 
melkoshemki. Squeezing PZUhu in socket, I suffered

apprehension, which was not slow to materialize and I attended 
deja vu ... 



               Step 3:

            It is a happy-end


         "For a long time I wandered through life

                                 earth,

          No incomprehensible to me under

                                 moon -

          I know what I did

                            not known

          Here is the ultimate truth, open

                                  me. "

                              Omar Khayyam

 But the one who spun the threads of my fate already
all long ago provided for, as he and
it should be. Quite by chance, in the middle of last week, 
going on the road to a hopeless radiomagazinchik with

purpose of acquiring KP11 th for turboVG (totally unnecessary 
device), I conversation with the seller. As a result,

revealed that he personally has
programmer and is always happy to help.

 In short, ripped from sockets native ROM
taking with him a disk with pytsyshnuyu
file *. rom and two 27,512, I went
in radiomagazin. After reading his ROMku
Pentagon, I fell in sediment (Ed.:
And he is not alone). Do chips were sacrificed 4 pages, with a 
zero quarter was something obscene with # 0000

to address # 1E00. According to some indirect
grounds - namely, small size, the presence of Russian character 
set and some meaningful messagam, I decided that this is a 
test. Next, go to the TR-DOS Address # 4000, Basic128 with # 
8000, Basic48 with # C000 until that neither is # FFFF.


 In general, taking into account the resulting
information, I recorded his long-suffering ROM and now enjoy 
rulezom (Btw, the firmware without Gluka I changed

font in 48-m plucked from HELP to



SHAITANovskomu FONTEDITORu font - looks verree bad ...)



                  SO

           that for which all

              this was written

         ROM Pentagon (and profiles)

    # 0000 - Empty (Menu0 for PROS)

             # 4000 - TR-DOS

            # 8000 - Basic128

   # C000 - Basic48 (tape rulez ;-))!!)

PS .. and in the zero-quarters lived menus
from the pros to test and monitor ...