RX02 and intel hex file tools

[Peter C. Wallace]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, C H. Dickman wrote:


objcopy?


> I am building an eprom adapter for a DEC Unibus M9301 bootstrap terminator so 
> I can use 8bit wide 2732 eproms in place of the 4bit wide fuse proms. The 
> goal is to boot RX02 disks which the M9301 roms don't support
>
> Are there any good unix tools for manipulating intel hex files or any binary 
> image files?
>
> I have the M9312 boot/diagnostic prom images which are intel hexfile. I 
> modified Eric Smith's program so that I could obtain intel hexfile images of 
> the proms that are not scrambled for the M9312.
>
> I need to join them and then create an image file so that my DataIO 201 
> burner will accept them. The burner can accept intel, motorola and tektronix 
> formats. I have used the intel format, but not the other two with this 
> burner.
>
> A quick search found srecord which claims to manipulate various formats, but 
> is written in C++ (which I don't speak) and does not compile in Linux (Fedora 
> Core 3).
>
> Basically, I need to take several binary images (now in intel hex), move them 
> to a different address, join them together, and then burn them on an eprom.
>
> -chuck
>
>
>

Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics