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Post #16 by Gorgonops
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryPeripherals
Post DateFri, 9 Jan 2015 - 00:11
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/mac-plus-installing-whole-new-rom-for-linux.908/
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You need an extended version of that board that allows a flash ROM to be written over an on-board serial port from another machine without pulling it out of the Mac. (Or, hey, even better: hijack the power-on hardware initialization to jump to a "recovery loader" which checks to see if some kind of switch is held down on powerup and, if so, initializes the Mac's SCC and accepts a new flash image over the built-in serial.) Then imagine all the fun you can have writing bare-metal software for the Plus!

(Hack together some solution for interfacing a joystick and port video games to it. It already bears a striking resemblance to a Vectrex....)

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