Re: Sidam Asterock wont coin up

Just a suggestion, someone should make a set of iso files of the floppies
and post them somewhere, you know, before the disks go bad and you're sol.
In this way, a program like "PowerISO" or similar virtual drive manager can
read/mount the files without the PC even having a physical floppy drive.

William Boucher
http://www.biltronix.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Welburn" <andy@andysarcade.net>
To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Sidam Asterock wont coin up

I'm sorry if I've forgotten the details, do you need a whole suite if disks
to do a complete build?

Do you know if your floppy drive is ok with HD disks? (They are formatted to
720k, but some drive types just won't read them)

Andrew Welburn (mobile)
www.andys-arcade.com

On 1 Nov 2012, at 22:03, vectorlist-steve <vectorlist@arcadehacking.com>
wrote:

> Any chance of getting a copy of those pesky Fluke 9100 floppies? I still
> need a working set to reinstall the software mine after the scsi drive
> failed. :-(
>
>
> On 11/1/2012 2:16 PM, Andrew Welburn wrote:
>> That's fantastic :)
>>
>> I will send the owner a new rom and see what happens, it will be a week
>> at least as he's on holiday right now :)
>>
>> Thanks for the hack, it would have taken me quite a while longer to look
>> at it myself, with no guarantee of success :)
>>
>> Andrew Welburn (mobile)
>> www.andys-arcade.com
>>
>> On 1 Nov 2012, at 20:22, vectorlist-steve <vectorlist@arcadehacking.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Below is the Asterock free play patch which required only the sidamas.2
>>> rom be modified for the hack to work. The code has been successfully
>>> tested in mame with a handful of plays and it is functional. YMMV on
>>> actual hardware so let me know if you encounter an issue and I will take
>>> a second look.
>>>
>>> The sidamas.2 rom is the only rom which requires modification and is
>>> mapped between 0x6800 and 0x6BFF on the Asterock hardware.
>>>
>>> Old Code:
>>> 0x68ED LDY $6F ;// credit count is stored at 0x006F
>>>
>>> New Code:
>>> 0x68ED LDY #$02 ;// load y register with value of 2 credits
>>>
>>>
>>> Using your favorite hex editor, modify the sidamas.2 file beginning at
>>> offset 0x00ED and replace the following two bytes:
>>>
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