SYM-1 and SYM-2 updates

Paul Schroeter gave me the dump of the SYM-2 ROM and photos of the backside.


More about the SYM-1 and SYM-2 on the Synertek pages

Sources of SYM-1 and SYM-2 Monitor ROMs

Many years ago Paul R.Santa-Maria (who sadly left us in 2012) gave me the listing of the source of the Monitor ROM in the SYM-1 1.1
Delivered as a listing, with the comments from the listing in the SYM-1 Reference manual and formatted close to the printed listing.

This is the heading of the listing:

SYM-1 SUPERMON AND AUDIO CASSETTE INTERFACE SOURCES
COMBINED AND CONVERTED TO TELEMARK ASSEMBLER (TASM) V3.1

0002 0000 ;
0003 0000 ;*****
0004 0000 ;***** COPYRIGHT 1979 SYNERTEK SYSTEMS CORPORATION
0005 0000 ;***** VERSION 2 4/13/79 “SY1.1”

Since the ROM of the SYM-1 1.0, 1.1 and the ROM of the SYM-2 2.0 are available:

  • Converted the listing back to source format (TASM32, standard MOS format).
  • Created separate source for the SYM-1 1.0 ROM, the SYM-1 1.1 ROM (the original listing) and the SYM-2 ROM.
  • Typed in the audio cassette interface sources from the 1.0 reference manual.
  • Changed the SYM-2 source to the different hardware (a 6532 at AC00 instead of a VIA) and other (minor) changes.
  • Binary output compared to the original ROM dumps as proof the sources match the dumps.

In this archive sources of 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 listings, binary output.