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This is source of the "SuperMario" 2MB ROM first shipped with the AV Quadras: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-71-source-code https://macintoshgarden.org
by Lammy 2y ago
This is source of the "SuperMario" 2MB ROM first shipped with the AV Quadras: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-71-source-code https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-71-source-code
Feature list: https://web.archive.org/web/20220926134250/https://support.apple.com/kb/TA29776?locale=en_US https://web.archive.org/web/20220926134250/https://support.a...
“The Centris 660AV and Quadra 840AV are the first Macintosh computers to implement a 2MB ROM using two 512Kx16 chips. The new ROM is also the first ROM that contains code for portions of System 7 that were able to be moved to the ROM, freeing up RAM for applications and other system use.”
Gary Davidian recollection: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/09/102781078-05-01-acc.pdf#page=20 https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
“[F]or the Quadra 840AV they were starting [a universal ROM] over and with a newly built ROM from new sources and incorporating a lot of the stuff from System 7”
“It was called the Super Mario ROM. I don't know why it was called that but that was what it was called. So [AV Quadras] were the first Super Mario ROM product. And so yeah, I wanted— they had to ship and then, you know, System 7 was out before us and it forced us to bump RAM to 8 megabytes from 4.”
- phendrenad2 2y agoSo this is the ROM and not the full OS?
- valleyer 2y agoIt's not even the full ROM. The toolbox source is not there, for example.
- duskwuff 2y agoOh, you're right - this repo looks like someone started uploading the leaked source and got interrupted partway through. There's a more complete version here, among other places: https://github.com/historicalsource/supermario/tree/master/base/SuperMarioProj.1994-02-09 https://github.com/historicalsource/supermario/tree/master/b...