I wish to use the TMS34020 framework to model a >very< old circuit card that I support (so that I can test some changes to the software). I would like to load TMS34020 linker output files (executables) from the TI toolchain into the emulation, either at startup, or else inside the debugger. I've looked through the sources for implementations that don't use ROM for the startup loads but I have not found any.
Is there an example of a MAME project that uses dynamic loads from "outside", so the emulation can stop, reload, and continue again?
I know this request is outside of the arcade model of operation. however, the emulations inside of MAME are so varied and rich that I think this is the best way to go for me. It's just a matter of finding out how to stop the emulation, reloading the AS space with new executable (and data), and then continuing.
KH