Re: Plus ROM adapter investigation 
Posted: Feb 18, 2015 2:04 PM    in response to: dougg3   Reply
Back on the subject of ROM image generation...
The Classic's ROM disk is so small because the ROM its self basically contains most of the System file. I'm pretty sure the ROM and the System file that originally shipped with the system are built from the same sources. Combine that with the way the Resource Manager works, that it will fall back to looking in the ROM if the resource it's looking for doesn't exist in the System file, and it should be possible to strip out any resources that are duplicated between the System file and the ROM, assuming the versions match. In other words, if you take the original software that shipped with the system and strip out any resources that already exist in the ROM, that should make a much smaller OS for inclusion in the disk image.

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