Actually, the header wasn't even developed for MESS, I developed if for my
standalone 7800 emulator. I wanted to avoid the nightmare of dozens of
command line switches that many 2600 emulators had to support all the
different bankswitch modes and controller configurations.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-stella@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-stella@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Frank Palazzolo
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 12:24 PM
To: stella@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [stella] Atari 7800 signing program
That's correct. The reason I don't support signing of raw binaries > 48K is
that I don't know which section of the ROM is mapped at console init time,
so I can't calculate a signature. The A78 header has that additional meta-
information about the mapping that is needed. There is nothing MESS-
specific about the A78 format, BTW, except that it originated with MESS.
It's actually a good solution to that mapping problem which crops up with
bank-switched cart images on all consoles.
Thanks,
-Frank
> Umm, am I missing something here? I was under the impression that the only
> difference between the raw bin and the .A78 version was that the .A78
version
> has a MESS header.
>
>
> Mitch
> Msorman@xxxxxxx
> http://atari7800.atari.org
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