Flashing ROM-inator Resurrections With EPROM

[jasonfortheworld]

Does anyone have any experience reflashing the hi and low ROM chips used in the Rominator for a 128k? I'm trying to help someone who bought the Mac Plus version of the rominator but needs to use in in a 128K Mac instead. I know there is a flashing tool that you can use on a Mac itself, but it doesn't work with the 128K Mac due to RAM limitations. I would try reflashing it on my Mac Plus that I have, but I've already switched all the pins from the Mac Plus side to the 128K side. I'd like to not have to redo all that work if possible.

I have a EPROM programmer, but I can't find any documentation on what files I should be flashing to the chips.

 

[frontein1]

I have a few of these for the Mac Plus. The ICs are probably similar though. Mine are SST 39SF040. You will need to take the BMOW Rominator file (1024KB) and break it into even and odd byte files. Then program each chip individually in the EPROM programmer.

I dug around my archives and I actually don't have the 64KB ROM variant of the BMOW 1024KB file. But dig around the BMOW site, I think you should be able to find the file that you need there.

Mac ROM-inator I Kit | Big Mess o' Wires

www.bigmessowires.com

 

[jasonfortheworld]

I actually wasn't able to find the ROM files that also have System 3.2 so use on the 128K anywhere. I ended up reaching out to Kero's Mac Mods directly and they were happy to share the two bin files for the high and low chips. I'll also drop them here in case anyone else needs it.