[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100A V6.1

[Andrew Welburn]

The video output is RGB, not monochrome, the sync is seperate and positive. Invert it and combine it to make it work on jamma, or indeed SCART, just plug it in, don't be scared, it works fine.

The schematics for the 9100 are in the flippers archive, the service manual details the video card schematic and Pinout.

The original monitor was just monochrome, but you can set the colour scheme in the editor settings. I use blue background with white text, this is much easier on the eyes when you are spending hours developing in the sometimes infuriating TL/1 language.

Creating/backing up the floppy disks can be a nightmare. I only found one version if Teledisk to work properly using an old 486 laptop with external floppy drive. YMMV.

The first thing you should do is replace the cpu's inside your faulty pods and try them again, it's a simple thing, an often works. Definitely put a Z80B CPU in your z80 pod to improve its function and compatibility.

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

On 7 Nov 2012, at 23:20, Andre Huijts <a.huijts at upcmail.nl> wrote:


> Thanks guys, problem is those tools don't work with USB drives mostly....I dug out my old PC and this has a built in floppy drive unit so we should be good to go.......when I find back my old LCD screen.....#^%{##^

> 

> Could even hook it to my TV but I'd still need a VGA cable. Going iMac is nice but There are some drawbacks....

> 

> Has anyone some info about the Video connector ? I guess it's monochrome and I did find the pin out and Andrew told me it should work with a regular arcade monitor. Do we know what levels of video and sync is put out ? I am planning on hook it  to a small CRT TV with SCART input...this should work. Might just hook it to the Green input only to get that nice retro look :)

> 

> The voltages for SCART are low (upto 1V) compared to TTL levels usually used at arcade monitors.

> 

> Also, I need to get the 6502 and Z80 pods running, they seem to be inoperative now. The 6502 processor is getting pretty hot, not sure if that is any good. I loved the suggestion in the manual to use a second 6502 pod to examine the first but I only have one......

> 

> One more thing I got two more probes with the system, but those have a smaller connector , think it's RS-232 sized, Am I correct that these are for the 9010 ? If so, if anyone is interested in them let me know.....

> 

> 

> Op 7 nov. 2012 om 21:17 heeft techtools-steve <techtools at arcadehacking.com> het volgende geschreven:

> 

>> Andre,

>> 

>> You can also try SAMdisk which claims to be able to run on windows 2000 and newer version of the OS.  I tied this utility back in April when my 9100 hard drive took a dirt nap and the software did work on XP.  Unfortunately, the v6.0 TD0 disk images were bad and I never successfully installed from disks created using SAMdisk.

>> 

>> http://simonowen.com/samdisk/

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> On 11/7/2012 11:33 AM, John Robertson wrote:

>>> andre.huijts at upcmail.nl wrote:

>>>> OK guys, I found my not-so old NEC USB floppy drive and hooked it up to my

>>>> Win XP laptop. Of course windows doesn't recognize the floppy. Now how do I

>>>> make images so I can send them to John (and others) ?

>>>> 

>>>> I saw a German DOS tool for it I believe in one of the FTP directories is

>>>> that what I need to use. Or is there any Windows tool that does a "blind"

>>>> track by track floppy image. Because I do have tools for the Atari ST that

>>>> can do that...IIRC :)

>>>> 

>>>> I assume Clonezilla is only good for doing Harddisk images and not floppies

>>>> ?

>>>> 

>>>> Andre

>>> 

>>> Hi Andre,

>>> 

>>> Actually on the FTP site I think we have a program that will create floppy images regardless if it can 'read' the floppy - ah, just found it, in the wrong directory - teledisk.lzh. Uploading it to the 9100A section on the FTP site.

>>> 

>>> Look for it here:

>>> 

>>> ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org/Test_Equipment/Fluke/9100A

>>> 

>>> I just renamed the directory "Test Equipment" to "Test_Equipment" to make it easier to type in that those darn %20s!

>>> 

>>> Dumper.zip is also of interest to some folks (9010A crowd) - was in 9100A directory (now moving to 9010A directory).

>>> 

>>> "This program will take the operator input for the begining & ending memory locations (in hex) then send ASCII formatted text out the 232 port to the host computer."

>>> 

>>> John :-#)#

>> 

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