----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 10:35
AM
Subject: Re: A quick apology and
questions about debuging Cloak & Dagger boards with a fluke 9010
Hi Dave,
OK, your child (unknown gender) should have arrived by now...any word on
the adapter?
The TTL list has been very quiet lately - I've been busy with the
business end and am just starting to re-use the Fluke (I had a tech working
for a number of months and he didn't like the Fluke much, so I didn't do
anything with it.) so I hope others might be interested in progress.
I'm trying to use the Fluke IDE program on a W95 machine, but it keeps
dying...should I assume it won't work on W95?
John :-#)#
At 1:39 AM -0800 2/16/04, David Shoemaker wrote:
First of all, to
all those waiting on the 9100 keyboard wedge. I have to
apologize. My wife and I are expecting our first child on the 24th.
And I have found myself more busy over the past nine months that I could
have possibly imagined.
As we are now
pretty much "ready" for her arrival I now have a little time over the next
few days to try and get a few last game things caught up. I do have to do
them in the order that I received them which means the wedges are 3rd in my
list of priority right now. Luckily the part that still needs work is
software and I can do that upstairs on my laptop after she has
arrived. So don't give up hope yet :)
Ok back to my #1
priority right now. A Cloak & Dagger problem that is driving me
nuts.
Set #1 works
perfectly, self test reports no problems, fluke ram / rom tests all check
out ok.
Set #2 appears to
work, self test reports, fluke ram / rom tests all ok
"Master roms
bad;
Loc;
00;00;00;00
Slave roms
bad;
loc;
00;00;00;00;00;00"
Set #3, Fluke found
bad master roms 503 & 504 burned replacements now check
ok.
But self test
reports same as set # 2.
I would dearly love
to know what in the heck the self test is doing. On occasion the rom
locations will be some apparently random hex value as they don't match any
board rom.
On #2 & #3 I am
sure the problem resides on the master cpu board as I have used the slave
cpu from set #1 to check them.
Anyone know if
there are catbox docs out there for C&D? Or have ideas on how to
debug these?
Oh, and
trivia:
Self test appears
to have a bug. First boot with ST switch results in color ram error
reported for chip 8B. Reset will clear the error. %100
repeatable on all 3 boards.
And another
trivia: On first boot, watch the attract mode. When the spy goes
to the 3rd down conveyer belt to collect the extra life box it is drawn with
the "Mystery" box graphic. All subsequent attract modes will use the
correct graphic.
David
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