Colour Genie ROM dumps

[A Grosz]

Hi all,

somehow I was unable to reply to an earlier thread from Terry on the
different screen sizes of EACA Colour Genies directly ...?!

Anyways....

My question is if there's a single placeholder for all the ROM dumps?
Like the 24 and the 25 row one along with the character generator. One
of the emulators appeared to have the 25-row version of the ROM.

Cheers,
Attila

[David Sutherland]

http://mess.slor.net/sys80.zip contains a collection of system-80 ROMs organized for MESS.

I am not sure who collected these but if you have more and post them to one of the alt.binaries.emulators  lists asking someone to add them to the MESS sys80.zip collection it will likely be done

Typically there is often a self-designated "librarian" of sorts for each platform that assigns a TOSEC name to each file.  Once that's assigned there is a hash that is associated with the "official name".  Ira may have done some TOSEC naming for TRS-80 Model 1/3.  If you have a ROM and you want to name it officially he might take it with your name recommendation. 

At least then if you have several ROMs, even with different names, you can run a utility on them to "correct" the names and eliminate any duplicates.  TOSEC has/had a free program called TIM that would let you do this.   I can't remember clearly but I think they might have had a way to generate .dat indexes which can be used with CLRMAME and other MAME .dat tools.

Another non-TOSEC renamer and ROM organizer is GoodTools.

ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoodTools
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSEC
http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/download.htm

Sorry, but I'm unaware of any online "TRS-80" collections of code other than the

• http://www.planetemu.net/?section=menus&machine=40 

which is likely  the older collection version stripped off the trs-80.com site.  (And also there are some torrent collections.)

p.s. here are some ROM links but none EACA/SYSTEM-80 AFAIK.

• Knut's LEVEL2.ROM modified for extended characters - http://home.online.no/~kr-lund/emul-fnt.htm
• Dragon/Colour ROMS - http://www.burgins.com/emulators.html
• you can download MESS ROMS here:
  http://southcentralemulaton.lefora.com/2009/05/19/download-mess-107-bios-complete-set-3/page1/

I guess a lesson here is that if you make a MESS EACA/SYSTEM-80 emulator, no matter how crummy it is, there are MESS folks who will archive your ROMs for you.  ;) 

[Attila]

On 10 jun, 00:09, David Sutherland <turn...@gmail.com> wrote:

<snip>

now that was an extensive reply :-) One of the earlier CG emulators
luckily has (likely) all the ROM dumps, too. Even the DOS. By the way,
here's something interesting, maybe we could salvage it before it's
gone:

http://www.geocities.com/biblioteca8bits/mainen.htm

Cheers,
Attila

[David Sutherland]

Just stumbled on this page looking for something related...

http://retro-roms.blogspot.com/2009/03/eaca-colour-genie-eg-2000-various-tosec.html

<contactr...@gmail.com> says:

I publish ROMS. Sometimes single files but mostly full No-Intro, TOSEC sets. You can download "retro games" for many platforms including Atari, Commodore, Spectrum, Sega, Nintendo, MAME and old PC DOS games.

If you have other ROMs and want to make sure they are distributed widely and made available he'd likely be a good contact to either send or receive of them.
 

[gansi]

> My question is if there's a single placeholder for all the ROM dumps?
> Like the 24 and the 25 row one along with the character generator. One
> of the emulators appeared to have the 25-row version of the ROM.

I have download the TOSEC dat file from the tosec webpage.
TOSEC-v2007-03-14_CM
There are only games listed not the ROMs itself.