merge of TOS ROM bin files

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merge of TOS ROM bin files

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While clearing my hobby-room i found my old ATARI 520 with Danish TOS on 6 chips. The machine do not work anymore, but i used my Eprom burner to make a copy of the chips. Now the question: how do i merge the 6 bin files into a working TOS image?

I'v attached the 6 files in a zip file

/Thomas
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It can be done with small program.
But order of files is important.
Simpler is to download TOS image. I think that there is Dannish version too.
See here on forum where can get it.
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Re: merge of TOS ROM bin files

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tssn wrote:While clearing my hobby-room i found my old ATARI 520 with Danish TOS on 6 chips. The machine do not work anymore, but i used my Eprom burner to make a copy of the chips. Now the question: how do i merge the 6 bin files into a working TOS image?

I'v attached the 6 files in a zip file

/Thomas
With a combination of tools.

The rom is both split bytewise & divided in 256kbit eprom chunks.

To merge the chunks, you can first use the DOS copy command.

copy /b tosdk.L0+tosdk.L1+tosdk.L2 tosdk.Low
copy /b tosdk.H0+tosdk.H1+tosdk.H2 tosdk.Hi

to mix the hi/lo bytes together, you will need a third party program, several exist, I've attached an archive with a few tools for that purpose,
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Check out the hardware preservation project: https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=43023
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Re: merge of TOS ROM bin files

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As part of my efforts to fix my 1040STF I created two Python scripts to build a single image from 6 ROMs and to split from a single image to 6 ROMs for programming on chips.
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