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BASIC ROMs

The project contains the following BASIC ROMs:

These built-in versions of BASIC were also referred to as Cassette BASIC, because no disk drive was required. Only the original IBM PC (Model 5150) actually provided a cassette interface, but IBM continued to use that name to describe the built-in BASIC at least up through the IBM PC AT (Model 5170).

Here's an IBM PC Machine XML excerpt that shows how to include a BASIC ROM:

<rom id="romBASIC" addr="0xf6000" size="0x8000" file="/devices/pc/rom/5160/basic/BASIC110.json"/>