zuiko21
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Thanks to the amazing efforts of dougg3 and others on this group, I'm on the way of putting a "decent" display during the startup of a SE/30 with alternative ROM...
As specified on flickr's caption, that SE/30 has no disk drive at all -- floppy, HD or CD. Only the Jolly Roger ROM SIMM, which in turn has no trace of any original Apple ROM: just that (very sinister) picture of me, a sampled sound and the (tiny) code to show them. I wrote the display part, and the sound playing code came from Doug's custom startup sound ROM.
Still there are things to smooth out, though. Despite the code being well tried and tested, the sound is heavily distorted :?: ; something doesn't match well my own code, or it just need some other initialisation -- this ROM does nothing else!
But it's a start. It can be done.
As specified on flickr's caption, that SE/30 has no disk drive at all -- floppy, HD or CD. Only the Jolly Roger ROM SIMM, which in turn has no trace of any original Apple ROM: just that (very sinister) picture of me, a sampled sound and the (tiny) code to show them. I wrote the display part, and the sound playing code came from Doug's custom startup sound ROM.
Still there are things to smooth out, though. Despite the code being well tried and tested, the sound is heavily distorted :?: ; something doesn't match well my own code, or it just need some other initialisation -- this ROM does nothing else!
But it's a start. It can be done.