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Fluke 9000A mystery adapter (for me at least ;-)
by John Robertson 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

I have a pod module here called "Z8 I/F ADAPTER" Fluke #9000-200/AB. It has no cable to the base, just a 40 pin CPU cable. Inside is a couple of RAM chips, and some Fluke hybrid interface ICs. Any guesses? John :-#)#

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Any Taito Bench Tester documentation available?
by James Marous 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

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Re: Cracking the 9010A ROM signature generator
by Kev 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

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Fluke 9000a-8051 Manual
by Ed Osborne 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

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Fluke 90 Series Manuals
by Matt Rossiter 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Does anyone happen to know if these are available online somewhere? I have them and I'm just wondering if I should scan them in. The two I have are: 1) 90 Series uP Board Tester - User's Manual 2) Quicktools for the IBM PC - User's Manual Matt _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist(a)flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist

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Fluke 9010a Troubleshooting w/ Omega Race
by Matt Rossiter 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

This might be more of a Vectorlist question, but I thought I might try here. Right now I'm using a 100% working Omega Race boardset to make sure I have the correct setup using the Fluke 9010a and Z80 Pod. First of all, the boardset just won't run with the Z80 Pod. I can see that the Reset line is pulsing. It won't run if I disable the watchdog circuit either. *sometimes* I can get it to do a Quick Ram Test successfully. Other times I get data error messages and if I do a bus test it will report a bunch of data lines tied together. Of course, if I put a normal z80 processor back in the game works perfectly fine. So, I'm just wondering if anyone out there knows how to properly setup an Omega Race boardset for troubleshooting with the Fluke 9010a and Z80 pod. This Pod should be working fine since I used it recently on a Pac-Man. thanks Matt _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist(a)flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist

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Fluke pod cables (related to 6502 pod)
by David Shoemaker 27 May '08

27 May '08

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Example code for Calculating CRC32 on the Fluke 9100
by Andy Welburn 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

hi all. Well, after running into this on more than one occasion, i decided to do something about it, you know when you have soldered-in roms on a game pcb and you don't have any 'good' signatures for that rom in particular? Don't want to have to desolder the rom? Don't have a reader capable of reading that funky rom? Still want to check the roms contents with a known good dump? I'm working on an Atari Sprint 2 pcb right now with just such a problem, after building an adapter to replace the 2k*8 PROM soldered-in with a 2716, i could then verify that i did have a bad prom there, and subsequently managed to verify all other roms by burning a bunch of 2716's with mame code and verifying sigs taken from the real roms in place against the known good 2716... However, while doing this, i pestered a few peopel into trying to crack the fluke 9100 signature calculation routine so that i could run it on mame roms and verify on the fluke itself. This is no easy task and i've been asking around for this for a while now... so i gave up, and thought to myself it would be great if i could calculate a reliable signature on the 9100 that is easily calculated on the pc on mame roms... Well then CRC32 is an answer to this, MAME carries CRC32's of all the roms it uses in all its game drivers, an excellent source of known-good sigs! With the help of Chris Hardy - who found this small CRC calculator code online - it looked like it could be converted for TL/1 use: http://www.di-mgt.com.au/crypto.html#CRC My C programming skills are very rusty, and it saved me a lot of time talking to Chris to just check on the meanings of the C statements in this CRC calculator code... Once Chris explained some of it to me in English, it helped me to translate it to what i know of TL/1... and here's the result of equivalent code : http://www.andysarcade.net/pix/DSC_2380.JPG (full program code omitted, but if you know TL/1 you know the meat and potatoes is in the middle bit - so long as you declare numeric crc=$FFFFFFFF, numeric temp, numeric j, numeric octets at the top) I'm no rocket-scientist, but i stuck this in my PROGLIB and it'll now be available to all my other UUT programs :) Its not tidy code, its not the quickest or most efficient, but it works... If you can suggest a better way of doing it, then please do expand on this if you can! I'm interested to hear who is actually actively programming on the 9100, is it just me all on my own?? I know a few people who own the 9100 units, but i'm the only one amongst them that seems to be using the editing suite... Whats the situation with you lot here on the list? A show of hands would be nice to see... Maybe we can pool resources and swap code snippets? I have hundreds of rom sigs and a growing collection of programs i have written, I understand anyones reluctance to give this info up for free (i have certainly put in a considerable amount of time on the fluke) so i'm looking to trade info with other people if anyone needs it? Personally i'm not after much info myself, but i'm always keen to add to my own knowledge base, and i don't mind helping others out with programming, and advice on the pitfalls of bugs in TL/1 etc.. :-) Of course, I could be delusional and I really am the only one doing any programming with it... so speak up! Andy Welburn http://www.andys-arcade.com _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist(a)flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist

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Working 9100 Keyboard adapter
by martin＠guddler.co.uk 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

Hi, In case anyone is interested, I've just posted details on a working keyboard adapter on my website: http://www.guddler.co.uk It's in the "Projects" section. I've been using it here for a week or so now. Thanks to a virtual machine causing a kernel panic and corrupting a couple of the project files I have a bit of work to do before I can post the source code, but I've put my BIN file from my working PIC there until then. I also have a USA keyboard in my possession too so that's being worked on over the next week or so (GB keyboard right now). All the details are on my website, although there do seem to be some DNS issues with the site at this precise moment (typical!) Let me know off list of any problems. Martin. _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist(a)flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist

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9100 Video display
by martin＠guddler.co.uk 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

Hi, Can anyone give me a clue on how to connect a monitor up to the 9100FT please? I have a B/W composite video monitor available to me (Tandy TRS-80 monitor), or of course a standard arcade monitor (10" MTC9000). Is it a simple case of wiring up the RGB and sync pins from the 9 pin d connector on the back to the arcade monitor or is there more to it than that? I don't know if the video card in this unit is B/W or Colour, or if indeed there is a difference. Do they all do both? And does anyone have any documentation specifically on the FT? Is there anything that says what the specific differences are beyond the HD floppy and the faster processor? There's 8 memory sockets for instance. Is that normal on all 9100's? Thanks, Martin. _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist(a)flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist

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