ZX81X2.ROM - and the big bang

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Re: ZX81X2.ROM - and the big bang

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I have a couple of TS1000's, a ZXMore, a ZXPand and a ZXPand+. I primarily use the ZXMore with either ZXPand+ or occasionally ZXPand. Do I need to buy a EPROM burner, EPROMs? Is there any documentation of what to buy, how to do it, etc? I would love to use this fast ROM.

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If I remember correctly. You kan load any ROM into ZXmore. I know this from ZXblast, which I have. And ZXmore and ZXblast should be quite similar.

I have the fast ROM in instance 3, and regular ROM is instance 1.
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You don't need an EPROM burner. Just "load" that rom from instance 0 LOAD menu to address 0 of any other instance. The LOAD menu of instance 0 shows also an example to "LOAD" something into FLASH rom of ZxMore.

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It should be in the ZXmore manual. It was in the ZXblast manual.
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What license are these changes published under?
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Feel free to use them, there are no restrictions. ;)
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zsolt wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:23 pm Feel free to use them, there are no restrictions. ;)
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Dear All,

I hope you are well despite the pandemic.

Here is the last X2-ROM variant - let's see, what is changed:

- the Babylonian (or Heron's) square root method (from the SAM Coupe ROM by Andy Wright) shared by aowen is included; :D
- i tried to solve an old "problem": the flicker free PAUSE; ;)
- good news for Siggi & Joachim: the renewed CLS (is a bit slower but) handles the too long D-Files.

The zip file contains the new ROM image (zx81X2m.rom for zxmore) and its source code, the changed/patched routines in a separate folder, and some test programs.

zx81x2c.zip
Please test it with your favourite softwares
(149.2 KiB) Downloaded 640 times

Cheers,
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Cheers Zsolt 8-) 👍

I hope you are fine as well.

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Many thanks Zsolt. :geek:

Time to fire up the burner! :lol:
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