different between ramset vs romset

English

Etymology

Originally a brand name.

Noun

ramset (plural ramsets)

1. (sometimes attributive) A large nail or bolt fired or fixed into hard materials, such as steel and concrete, and used to hold or anchor them in place.

Verb

ramset (third-person singular simple present ramsets, present participle ramsetting, simple past and past participle ramsetted)

1. To fire or fix such a fastening.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ramset.

Synonyms

• rambolt
• direct fastening

Anagrams

• 'maters, Amster, METARs, Master, Stream, armest, armets, master, mastre, maters, matres, metras, ramets, remast, stream, tamers, tremas, trémas

English

Etymology

ROM +? set

Noun

romset (plural romsets)

1. (video games) A group of related ROM images required to emulate a particular game.
   • 2000, "Ben Castricum", Searching for a Swedish/Finnish C64 romset (on newsgroup comp.sys.cbm)

     I am looking for a rom dump of a Swedish or Finnish C64. They seem to have an alternate romset than the ones used elsewhere (probably because of the characters used in those countries).

   • 2001, "Paul Irvine", NeoGeo (on newsgroup uk.games.video.misc)

     You are right re the romsets, MAME uses different sets for a lot of games, you can't intermix Neorage and MAME sets.

Anagrams

• Morets, Strome, Tomers, metros, storme