05-17-17 22:45 Ian McCall wrote to Andreas Kohlbach about Re: Patch now!
Howdy! Ian,

 IM> On 2017-05-17 21:37:45 +0000, Andreas Kohlbach 
 IM> said:

 > On Wed, 17 May 2017 20:55:45 +0100, Ian McCall wrote:
 >>
 >> Upgrade your kernals now - no C64 is safe!
 >>
 >> https://twitter.com/Twylo/status/864655680514342912/photo/1>
 >
 > Yeah, everybody is upgrading. After the ransom ware disaster at the NHS they
 > also do
 >
http://newsthump.com/2017/05/15/government-pledge-to-upgrade-nhs-zx-spectrums
 IM> -to-commodore-64s/>.

 IM> "The
 >
 IM> Government will fund the deal partly by selling the ZX Spectrums on
 IM> eBay and partly through a jumble sale in Ealing"

 IM> What a co-incidence. That's how I funded -my- C64.


 IM> (well, alright - that's how my parents funded my C64, and it wasn't
 IM> Ealing. It -was- selling a Spectrum and also giving things to the
 IM> jumble sale though. For a joke decades in the making though? Close
 IM> enough).

I'm having a problem trying to figure out if Your next to last sentence
means that Your original message in this thread was a JOKE?

Or was it written for people who used a C=64 Emulator on a PC or MAC?

Please let me know because I don't plan to visit the Twitter Link.
(Maybe the C=64 page on Wikipedia has information about this patch?).

AFAIK the Kernal ROM IC inside my C=64 on the printed circuit board
can't be changed by a File or something coming in one of the Ports
built in on the C=64.

My thoughts are to change what's written on a ROM Chip would be to
unsolder it from the circuit board and put it in a ROM BURNER and
then burn lot of locations that haven't been burned previously to
really mess up the Code on the ROM.

BTW, I've never Burned a ROM.

Years ago I talked with someone who owned a ROM Burner and listened to
what they did when they needed to Burn the Fuses (iirc) so the Chip
would perform the task they wanted the ROM Chip to do for them.

I may have read a article in a computer magazine about creating ROM Chips.??



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