Support ROM urls about jsbeeb HOT 19 CLOSED

There's probably a URL-poke you could do to disable one of the existing ROMs.
See https://github.com/mattgodbolt/jsbeeb#patches
Or maybe the ROM URL interface could allow specifying a slot for the ROM?

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Are there any other games that require a ROM to be installed? I can't think of any. You could simply always have this ROM installed so that users can simply run the game from STH.

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I'm trying to avoid checking in copyrighted material into the source tree. I have permission for some stuff (e.g. protection systems and Elite), and the Acorn ROMS I believe to be in the public domain.

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Don't check it in then, just upload it to your site, no-one will notice ;) But fair point anyway.

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I kinda do that for STH games (via a caching proxy I run). That's what this bug is really about; if I can find all the ROMs I want I can mirror them and then specify them by a URL parameter (just as I do for STH games). Then it doesn't matter if it's part of the distribution or mirrored on the website :)

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Example URL for Dr Who: http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/bestrest.html

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The zip at STH http://www.stairwaytohell.com/bbc/archive/diskimages/Micropower/DoctorWhoAndTheMinesOfTerror.zip also contains the ROM.

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I'd like to run HiBasic and Bas128 - any ideas? I found an ssd with Bas128 on it, so I suppose that's not a ROM problem as such. HiBasic can be found on mdfs.net but only as a ROM image.

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Has the "rom" URL parameter been implemented yet?

This doesn't seem to work:

http://bbc.godbolt.org/?rom=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/6t3agcr48eea9sj/DDOC109

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Ah, yes. It works in the beta!

http://bbc.godbolt.org/beta/?rom=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/6t3agcr48eea9sj/DDOC109

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Cool! I'll update the main site with the latest beta code. I'd forgotten they weren't in sync!

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Main site updated; your original link now works. Leaving this bug open for now to get STH support in...

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Thanks! I was trying to work around the problem of Oddjob failing to load in JSBeeb because it requires DFS 1.2 -- I was trying to work around it by creating a custom config using URL-loaded ROMs, but my hack also requires a modified disc image with a custom !BOOT, so it's not ideal:

http://bbc.godbolt.org/?rom=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ushwl84l2cdkevz/DNFS&rom=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ocqrpii2qkbf2xs/ARM100.ROM&autoboot&disc=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/bcjnw8em0ugf5q8/Disc103-OddJobD-HAK.ssd

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Or maybe Matt could fix this issue:

#137

;-)

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@BigEd You were right about the URL poke.

Here's a config that includes (1) an unmodified disc image of Oddjob, (2) a URL poke that disables DFS 0.9, and (3) a URL-loaded DFS 1.2 ROM:

http://bbc.godbolt.org/?patch=@ffee,02af:00&rom=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ushwl84l2cdkevz/DNFS&autoboot&disc=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/se37sf4gjqk9ani/Disc103-OddJobD.ssd

I'm using ?(&2A1+romnumber)=0 to disable the DFS 0.9 ROM, and I'm assuming it's in slot 14.

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nice!

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@mattgodbolt Can this be closed? Sounds like ROM URLs are implemented, and the question of different DFS options is tracked in the other referenced bug.

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Yes I think so! @BigEd / @Pernod70 / @ahope1 feel free to reopen more specific bugs if you find them! Thanks all

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