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Re: OLD messages? Re: Wildwood 8080 processor adaptor module?
by John Robertson 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

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Anyone used a Hakko 808 desoldering gun?
by Franklin Bowen 11 Mar '04

11 Mar '04

If so, were you happy with it? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Franklin Bowen (Franklin(a)Bowen.net) http://fmbbowen.com:39353 If you ever want to (un)subscribe yourself with TTL, you can send mail to: <Majordomo(a)flippers.com> with the following command in the body of your email message: (un)subscribe techtoolslist or from another email account, besides xxx(a)yyy.com: (un)subscribe techtoolslist xxx(a)yyy.com

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Re: Turkey Shoot / Mystic Marathon / Inferno Scripts?
by kklopp＠erols.com 11 Mar '04

11 Mar '04

Boy how old is that message? I've repaired 3 TS & 1 Mystic Marathon since then and have written some more scripts for these. Thanks, Kev Original Message: ----------------- From: John Robertson jrr(a)flippers.com Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:51:16 -0800 To: techtoolslist(a)flippers.com Subject: Re: Turkey Shoot / Mystic Marathon / Inferno Scripts? I just found my Turkey Shoot MPU. do you still need the checksums? I have no idea if it is good... John :-#)# >Has anyone used the 9010A to work on these? > >I've started writing scripts but I've got a few issues to resolve. > >Checksums would be a great help, especially for Turkey Shoot. > >Thanks, >Kev -- John's Jukes Ltd. 2343 Main St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T Call (604)872-5757 or Fax 872-2010 (Pinballs, Jukes, VideoGames) www.flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out" If you ever want to (un)subscribe yourself with TTL, you can send mail to: <Majordomo(a)flippers.com> with the following command in the body of your email message: (un)subscribe techtoolslist or from another email account, besides xxx(a)yyy.com: (un)subscribe techtoolslist xxx(a)yyy.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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Follow up to sync issues with 1084S
by James Bright 11 Mar '04

11 Mar '04

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RE: Replace the 9010A base with an IBM Parallel port?
by John Robertson 10 Mar '04

10 Mar '04

Does anyone here want to assist by disassembling the Z80 (or 6502 or 680X) code in one of the pods to figure out the command codes? Now that we have an idea of the results, a list of the command codes might make it very easy to continue to the next stage-actually talking to a pod on the parallel port. I think it is actually not going to be that difficult.... The code is on the archive site ftp://ftp.flippers.com/Fluke John :-#)# --------------------------------------------<results if you missed them>------------------------------------------------- More results: Great, when you do a First READ on the pod, you get a RESET to the pod, and a bunch of chatter: READ FE55 = 31: 30 35 REAL LONG PAUSE ... RESET AB 36 38 30 32 20 20 PAUSE FOR (about) TWO CYCLES(2P) 24 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF (P) (P) (P) 00 00 00 00 (P) FF FF FF FE (P) 00 00 08 00 30 (P) 4D 52 20 20 20 20 P P P P 48 41 4C 54 20 20 P P P 0E 00 06 30 00 LONG PAUSE HERE.....PERHAPS 10 TIME UNITS THEN 30 35 55 31 00 Now I'll try to do some more reads...This is exactly the order as entered... Read @ Location Data Softla results (Start byte, command byte, high address, low address, data read, Stop) N MP MP MP MP MP ( N means no handshaking, M is MAINSTAT & P is PODSTAT) 4567 FF = 5A 35 45 67 FF 00 89AB FF = 53 35 89 AB FF 00 0001 00 = AB 35 00 01 00 00 Write @ Loc. Data N MP MP MP MP 0101 AA = 01 23 01 AA 00 MP 2055 56 = AA 33 20 55 56 00 0101 43 = 56 33 01 01 43 00 Read... N MP MP MP MP MP 2055 FF = 43 35 20 55 FF 00 F808 FF = 55 35 F8 08 FF 00 F9AB FF = 08 35 F9 AB FF 00 FDEA FC = AB 35 FD EA FC 00 I think I now see the pattern for reads/writes. The first byte is the LAST DATA, note that the timing for that is such that MAINSTAT and PODSTAT have done nothing until the second byte. I suspect the 1st data byte is there for the REPEAT function...so lets try that... Repeat... N MP MP MP FDEA FC = EA 05 FC 00 Repeat... FDEA FC = 05 05 FC 00 Repeat... FDEA FC = 05 05 FC 00 OK, for REPEAT the first Byte (again before M or Podstat) is 1st the last data,then the last instruction. Now lets try a write again... Write... N MP MP MP MP MP 0123 45 = 05 33 01 23 45 00 0123 66 = 45 03 66 00 (much shorter for a second write to the same address!) Thus 03 is "Same Address Write" Read... N MP MP MP MP 0124 00 = 66 15 24 00 00 (hmmm looks like "15" is read increment(?) to next byte. let's test... 0125 00 = 24 15 25 00 00 (now lets skip a few...) 012F 00 = 25 15 2F 00 00 (and a few more...) 0138 00 = 2F 15 38 00 00 (lets shift up a little ways...) 0238 FF = 38 25 02 FF 00 (interesting...seems to latch the 38, ok, lets change both a bit) 0339 EF = 02 35 03 39 EF 00 (OK, it caught that, "35" might mean "new address read") I think the pattern that is coming out is something close to this X3 = write, X5 = read, if X = 0 then same address, if X = 1, then same address high byte, if X = 2 then latch low address byte, if X = 3 new address bytes. Yes, this looks right so far... TIMING The very first byte is BEFORE you get any handshaking...then you get MAINSTAT, then shortly after you get PODSTAT which ends just after MAINSTAT ends, then the remaining handshaking has POD end with MAIN. Boy I wish this had time marks... John :-#)# ...:56 AM 05/03/2002 -0800, John Robertson wrote: >>Read @ Location Data Softla results (Start byte, command byte, >>high address, low address, data read, Stop) > > 0208 FF = 00 35 02 08 FF 00 > 0505 EF = 99 35 05 05 EF 00 > 1050 FF = 13 35 10 50 FF 00 > FE55 31 = 00 35 FE 55 31 00 > >Got it! the first data byte seems to grab the pods attention, often a 00, >but perhaps (?) not that important, but it certainly looks like a Clean >(no other read action in front) Read is "35" then the address and the >resulting data. It appears that multiple reads change the communication >with the pod in the sense that if you take two reads (different locations) >in a row the command string is different. Stay tuned this evening when I >dig into more reads and test the writes. > >John :-#)# > > >> 0000 AA = 00 23 00 AA 00 (result) >> 0101 FE = 00 21 00 FE 00 >> 0200 EF = 01 35 02 00 EF >> 00(result - a little longer this time...) >> 0300 EF = 00 26 03 EF 00 >> 8000 EF = 02 26 80 EF 00 >> C000 FF = 80 26 C0 FF 00 >> F800 FF = C0 26 F8 FF 00 >> FC00 8E = F8 26 FC 8E 00 >> FC05 8D = FC 16 05 8D 00 >> FCEE EE = 05 16 CC EE 00 >> 0200 EF = CC 35 02 EF 00 (same >> length as others now...) >> 0000 AA = 00 23 00 AA 00 >> >>Now I'll try some writes: >>Write @ Location Data (results) >> 0000 55 = 00 03 55 00 >> 0100 AA = 55 25 01 AA 00 >> 0200 AA = CC 23 02 AA 00 >> 8000 44 = CC 23 80 44 00 >> EF08 11 = 0C 33 EF 08 11 00 >> (longer) >> >>Well, that's all for tonight, I'm getting tired... >> >>John :-#()#

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RE: Fluke 9010A - Pod Timeout
by Phillip Eaton 10 Mar '04

10 Mar '04

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >I have a Z80 pod for my 9010A which works fine on various boards and passes >its self-test okay, yet if I plug it into an original Universal Cosmic >Alien board I get a 'Pod Timeout' error when attempting to perform any >Fluke operation. > >The Cosmic Alien is in itself faulty (hence the reason I'm trying the Fluke >on it) - the thing is, what could be causing the timeout error? > Is the clock signal or one of the other status lines held in an odd state? I had the same problem with a Space Invaders PCB (not Z80) and what I did was to remove all the warning settings which then made it run, then put them back one by one until I found the culprit. Phil.

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Fluke 9010A - Pod Timeout
by Phil Morris 10 Mar '04

10 Mar '04

I have a Z80 pod for my 9010A which works fine on various boards and passes its self-test okay, yet if I plug it into an original Universal Cosmic Alien board I get a 'Pod Timeout' error when attempting to perform any Fluke operation. The Cosmic Alien is in itself faulty (hence the reason I'm trying the Fluke on it) - the thing is, what could be causing the timeout error? Thanks, Phil If you ever want to (un)subscribe yourself with TTL, you can send mail to: <Majordomo(a)flippers.com> with the following command in the body of your email message: (un)subscribe techtoolslist or from another email account, besides xxx(a)yyy.com: (un)subscribe techtoolslist xxx(a)yyy.com

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FS: Data I/O 29A with Unipak 2, $75
by Electronicamuse＠aol.com 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

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Data I/IO 29A vs 29B questions
by Electronicamuse＠aol.com 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

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Any place I can find a Pace SX-55A for reasonable price?
by Franklin Bowen 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Or is there a consensus decent make & model de soldering station and extractor going for reasonable prices anywhere? I got a Pace MBT-200 de soldering station from Clay Cowgill quite a few years ago and finally started looking for the extractor but the only one I have found is $225, more than I want to spend. I am looking to get a decent de soldering set up for cheap/reasonable cost. Thanks! -- Franklin Bowen (Franklin(a)Bowen.net) http://fmbbowen.com:39353 If you ever want to (un)subscribe yourself with TTL, you can send mail to: <Majordomo(a)flippers.com> with the following command in the body of your email message: (un)subscribe techtoolslist or from another email account, besides xxx(a)yyy.com: (un)subscribe techtoolslist xxx(a)yyy.com

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