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November_2000
RE: VECTOR: CRCs, Sig Anal etc.


From: Phillip Eaton ( )
Date: Thu Nov 02 2000 - 03:35:42 CST


> Bill Ung, a number of years ago, wrote a small DOS based program
> that would
> take files and calculate the checksum and display on the screen, plus the
> estimated size of the ROM. If anyone wants that program it is at:
>
> http://www.flippers.com/exe/romsum.exe

I checked this out, but it does a chexsum on the complete ROM image, not on
a single data line of a ROM, so it doesn't give 8 results per ROM, that are
the same as the Atari published ones.

Similarly, it doesn't tell you what algorithm it uses. It looks to be a 16
bit one, though. ROMIdent uses 32 bit, which pretty much does the same
thing.

Phillip Eaton (D-Type/Flip-Flop)
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