[Coco] Re: Repacking

Roger Taylor rtaylor at bayou.com
Sun Jun 13 23:49:52 EDT 2004


At 10:28 PM 6/13/2004, you wrote:

>--- Roger Taylor wrote:
> > At 11:38 PM 6/12/2004, you wrote:
> > >
> > > > Do you use a Speech pak, RS-232 pak or other romless pak?
> >
> > The Radio Shack Deluxe RS-232 Pak does has a ROM in it.  The software is
> > TERRIBLE and is just there to give the user *something* to get by with.
> >
>Yeah, I kind of figure that anyone seriously using one has long-since disabled
>that ROM. I guess the same applies to the Modem pak, although it's software is
>still a far cry better than Videotex was.
>
>Bob


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I never had to hack those cartridges to prevent the ROMs from 
booting.  With an MPI, unless you move the slot switch to where one of 
those paks are, the floppy disk ROM gets mapped in.  Am I right?

Roger Taylor






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