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ROM and .
The main Asteroids game program uses only 6 KB of ROM code.
Another 2 KB of vector ROM contains the descriptions of the main graphical elements ( rocks, saucer, player's ship, explosion pictures, letters, and digits ) in the form of DVG commands.
The 2600 port was the first game to use a bank-switched cartridge, doubling available ROM space.
The CPU bus provides addressing to other subsystems, such as conventional RAM, ROM and the Zorro II or Zorro III expansion subsystems.
It has 32 kilobytes of RAM, and its ROM includes BBC BASIC v2 along with its operating system.
This meant that although ROM applications ran at the same speed, there was a substantial speed decrease on applications running from RAM.
Despite this, several features that would later be associated with BBC Master and Archimedes were first features of Electron expansion units, including ROM cartridge slots and the Advanced Disc Filing System — a hierarchical improvement to the BBC's original Disc Filing System.
The Acorn Plus 1 added two ROM slots, an analogue interface ( supporting 2 channels ) and a Centronics parallel port.
The ROM slots could be booted from via the " Shift + Break " key-combination.
Access to ROM memory occurred at 2 MHz regardless of graphics mode so theoretically programs released on ROM could run at least twice as fast as those released on tape or disc.
Despite this all of the games released on ROM were packaged as ' serial ROMS ', from which the micro would load programs into main memory in exactly the same way as if it were loading from tape.
( via their ARA / ARA2 / ASR products ) allowed ' Sideways ROM ' capability, that allowed the standard Acorn ROM space to be programmatically mapped out for alternative EPROMs, either physically via ZIF Sockets, or ' virtually ' via ROM-images loaded into ( Battery-backed ) RAM in the same ROM memory space.
The Acorn Plus 3 was a hardware module that connected independently of the Plus 1 and provided a double-density 3½ ” disc drive connected through a WD1770 drive controller and an ADFS ROM.
Because the WD1770 is capable of single density mode and uses the same IBM360 derived floppy disc format as the Intel 8271 found in the BBC Micro, it was also possible to run a DFS filing system with an alternate ROM, such as the P. R. E. S AP4 interface.

ROM and now
A software ROM was still supplied, but this did no more than expand the hardware ROM so that it knew mode 7 now existed and was able to switch into it.
* UAE ( Amiga emulator compatible with AMOS and AMOS games, now works without a Kickstart ROM image )
Simply taking off the top cover of the ZX80 and prying the old ROM from its socket and carefully inserting the new ROM and adding the keyboard overlay, the ZX80 would now function almost identically to the proper ZX81-except for SLOW mode, due to the differences in hardware between the two models.
Some other languages, such as the Monitor built into ROM on the Commodore 128, used it to indicate octal instead, a convention that spread throughout the Commodore community and is now used in the VICE emulator.
The new ROM firmware was now 256KB in size and contained the System 5. x toolsets.
Also, NSB was made a corporation, with NSB Biltrafikk ( now Nettbuss ) and NSB Eiendom ( now ROM Eiendomsutvikling ) made subsidiaries of NSB.
Unlike most of the competing systems, this was compatible with the Sinclair's extended ROM, meaning that the same BASIC commands used to operate Microdrives or the ZX Printer now could control floppy disk drives or a standard parallel printer.
Due to OS X not requiring the availability of the Toolbox, this allowed ROM sizes to shrink dramatically ( typically from to ), and facilitated the use of Flash memory for system firmware instead of the now more expensive and less flexible Mask ROM that most previous Macs used.
Derivatives of this were used in the first Atari video games, as was the 2513 text display ROM .. Later they were taken over by Philips and fully integrated into Philips Semiconductors ( now NXP ).
ROM image files can be obtained from PalmSource ( now part of Access Co., Ltd ), or downloaded from a real Palm device.
A beta-version of the original version of the game has been leaked and is now widely available as a ROM image.
The sequel is a straight-up, cookie-cutter platformer without any real Simpson-y touches to satisfy fans of the show ; Bart finds himself wandering through generic side-scrolling levels, with a Simpsons character showing up every now and then to remind you that this is an actual licensed product and not just a ROM hack.

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The ZGRASS unit sat under the Astrocade and turned it into a " real " computer, including a full keyboard, a math co-processor ( FPU ), 32k of RAM, and a new 32k ROM containing the GRASS programming language ( sometimes referred to as GRAFIX on this machine ).
The follow-up version, БК-0010. 01 ( sometimes referred to as-0010-01 ) was essentially the same machine, but with a conventional full-travel keyboard and a Vilnius BASIC p-code compiler in the ROM, correcting the weakest points of its predecessor.
As the firmware only worked in this motherboard and no new firmware updates were ever issued, users commonly referred to this version of the Apple IIGS as the " ROM 3 ".
Upon starting the console, the player may enter a series of characters referred to as a " code " or several such series that reference addresses in the ROM of the cartridge.
* T. ( Pteropelyx ) marginatus ( nomen dubium ) Lambe, 1902 ( based on ROM 1218, disassociated postcranial material ; a chimera including material later named Stephanosaurus marginatus and then assigned to Lambeosaurus lambei, and other material sometimes referred to Kritosaurus marginatus, which is not supported by later reviews.

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In IBM PC compatible computers, the Basic Input / Output System ( BIOS ), also known as the system BIOS or ROM BIOS (), is a de facto standard defining a firmware interface.
Examples of non-volatile memory include read-only memory ( see ROM ), flash memory, most types of magnetic computer storage devices ( e. g. hard disks, floppy discs and magnetic tape ), optical discs, and early computer storage methods such as paper tape and punched cards.
Puns on the " wet dirt " meaning of " mud " are endemic, as with, for example, the names of the ROM ( Rivers of MUD ), MUCK, MUSH, and CoffeeMUD codebases and the MUD Muddy Waters.
Unlike the IBM PC, which used 8 kB of system ROM for power-on self-test ( POST ) and basic input / output system ( BIOS ), the Mac ROM was significantly larger ( 64 kB ) and held key OS code.
Multiplan was released first for computers running CP / M ; it was developed using a Microsoft proprietary p-code C compiler as part of a portability strategy that facilitated ports to systems such as MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, TRS-80 Model 100 ( on ROM ), Apple II, and Burroughs B-20 series.
* ROM: 2K ( TMS100 ), 1K ( 8021 )
* Cartridge ROM: 2K ( TMS 1100 ), 1K ( 8021 ) masked ( integrated into CPU ; each game's CPU was different )
Other licensed works that have been incorporated into the Marvel Universe include Godzilla, 2001: A Space Odyssey ( in the character of Machine Man ), ROM: Spaceknight, the Micronauts, and the Shogun Warriors.
* ROM ( MUD ), a popular MUD codebase
The RTE client does not have a general purpose operating system-it usually lacks shells ( terminal windows ), is not designed to be patched ( updated online ), has minimal connectivity to external resources, and is often found in read-only media ( e. g. tamper-resistant ROM chips, CD-ROM, etc .).
The Spectrum reused a number of technologies used in the ZX81, such as some of the same ROM code ( some obsolete routines used for the ZX81 exist in the Spectrum ), and a similar ULA for hardware control.
The ZX Interface 1 add-on module included 8 kB of ROM, an RS-232 serial port, a proprietary LAN interface ( called ZX Net ), and an interface for the connection of up to eight ZX Microdrives – somewhat unreliable but speedy tape-loop cartridge storage devices released in July 1983.
The boot process was revolutionized by the introduction of integrated circuit read-only memory ( ROM ), with its many variants, including mask-programmed ROMs, programmable ROM ( PROM ), erasable ROM ( EPROM ), and flash memory.

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