By the way, can someone explain the difference between a fluke signature and a checksum? Sometimes my fluke reports a bad rom signature, but that doesn't necessarily mean the rom is bad does it? Matt -----Original Message----- From: techtoolslist-bounces@flippers.com [mailto:techtoolslist-bounces@flippers.com] On Behalf Of John Robertson Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:32 PM To: Technical Tools Mail List Subject: RE: [Techtoolslist] James has been busy! Let me sell off my 9010A bases before someone makes a PC interface for the pods! Sigh. I agree though, that would be best - a number of people have looked into it and said they were going to do it...nothing so far though. John :-#)# At 7:25 PM -0400 9/13/05, James Bright wrote:
Yeah, that's his name. The source code was there... or mostly there.... if I recall. It's not really all that tough to do because the scripts that are delivered to the 9010A are really just keystrokes encoded a specific way. The tedious part is that implementing a parser/syntax checker/compiler and that is really not a whole lot of fun from a programming perspective... BTW, by looking at his code was how I figured out a little bit about "thunking down" to the z80 code.
A much more interesting project would be an adapter to control the pods from a PC. Quite a bit of work to get that completed (which is why I've been keeping my eye on some of the Fluke emulation work), but it would open up the possibility of using a more structured language to write scripts. For example, wouldn't it be nice to use a CRC check instead of a Signature check for ROMs... which is a little hard to implement with existing script language.
I'll start thinking about what enhancements I can do with tech.quarterarcade.com.
JB
--James Bright www.QuarterArcade.com Restored Arcade Games for your Home
-----Original Message----- From: techtoolslist-bounces@flippers.com [mailto:techtoolslist- bounces@flippers.com] On Behalf Of John Robertson Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:12 PM To: Technical Tools Mail List Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] James has been busy!
No, there is another one, written by a Fredric L. Rice that he gave to the Fluke community (it's on the FTP somewhere) back in 2002. I don't think he included the source code though. I have sent him a note to see if he is interested in parting with that - assuming his email still works!
John :-#)#
At 6:50 PM +0100 9/13/05, Martin White wrote:
Don't forget that the compiler is just the command line one that came with the 9010a. Therefore proprietry.
I think!
On 13 Sep 2005, at 18:32, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, John Robertson wrote:
The scripts run on the Fluke 9010A (Z80)...or are you speaking about the compiler?
I was, sorry.
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