Re: Sidam Asterock wont coin up

William Boucher wrote:
> 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

Hadn't been following this thread..

Yes, there is a Fluke archive, along with many other test equipment
tools software (FTP site) - much discussion about the 9100 floppies.hard
drives, software... in years gone by, but all are archived.
And a running mail list to talk about them now:

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John :-#)#
>
>
> ----- 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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