[Techtoolslist] Galaxian Fluke 9100A signatures

[John Robertson]

Hi Andre,

Your Galaxian information is of some interest for those working on that 
game. To get the signatures you can use RomSum from William to generate 
the various signatures quickly for your ROM images:

http://romident.coinopflorida.com

However at the moment it only shows the Fluke 9010 sigs, although I 
thought the 9100 would generate regular 8 bit Checksums...

I watched your video and it is a good start at letting folks know a bit 
about the 9100. One suggestion - the starting point (Reset vector) you 
speak off (0000h) is just for the Z80 (and 8080), other CPUs store the 
reset vector elsewhere, so I would just say something like that this 
vector depends on the CPU (pod) under test.

If you can show how to program into the 9100 the tests you show on your 
Galaxian board that would help generate more interest in using that 
incredibly powerful tool.

A sequence of tests could be:

Setup pod
Bus test
ROM test first as a group, then individually if the group fails
RAM test first as a group, then individually if the group fails
Video RAM test first as a group, then individually if the group fails
I/O pins (this is where it gets tricky!)

The annoying part about the 9100 is the programming language has not 
proven popular with enough people to get folks to share their program 
scripts so we could get a core of programs for people to build from.

Many of the tests you describe on the 9100 can be done on the 9010, the 
power of the 9100 is if you can write scripts that the machine stores on 
board and you then run them as a computer aided diagnostic tool. I would 
love to use the 9100 more, but I don't repair enough boards to then want 
to spend the time learning the 9100 language enough to generate service 
scripts.

Sharing 9100 scripts for testing individual components and the basic 
building blocks would only help everyone so that is what I propose.

For example - a script to test the 6821 and 6520. These two ICs are very 
similar I/O devices and share almost all functions. I'd like to see a 
script which allows one to set the I/O ports to inputs/outputs and read 
or write to those ports (or individual pins) with a followup script for 
the expansion pod to both input and read outputs of the logic board I/O 
ports. Thus one could set up a test bed and use the script as a building 
block to test the boards you are interested in.

Other I/O devices - 8255, 6532, simple TTL I/O could then follow.

Then examples of how to write scripts for doing the board preliminary 
tests would be of benefit to the group of folks who play with the 9100.

John :-#)#

On 07/09/2015 1:27 AM, Andre Huijts wrote:
> Well, that didn’t come over very well…..
>
> I just shared my Numbers document so everyone can see it, when I update it it will get updated automatically too:
>
> https://www.icloud.com/numbers/AwBUCAESEE5y2qCeoAXOG8sqQGggsMIaKbJLDaOZmWbosjtZHRkyTEqF5TPwm1Eluj725HvNzK29lnTJZUvp4rr5MCUCAQEEIFTL9fKl7mElO7x7QvumaDLsNfOwydRC5lK37Zm06xXf#Fluke_9100A_signatures <https://www.icloud.com/numbers/AwBUCAESEE5y2qCeoAXOG8sqQGggsMIaKbJLDaOZmWbosjtZHRkyTEqF5TPwm1Eluj725HvNzK29lnTJZUvp4rr5MCUCAQEEIFTL9fKl7mElO7x7QvumaDLsNfOwydRC5lK37Zm06xXf#Fluke_9100A_signatures>
>
>
> If anyone has 9100A signatures to ad please mail them to me or here and I’ll add them.
>
> Also: I made a video about the 9100A, mostly because I was appalled that there was not a single video about it on Youtube.
>
> Most of us here will find it boring as it’s only explaining the very essential stuff mostly for people who still don’t know what a 9010/9100 can so (but to be honest, who needs more ?)
>
> It didn’t turn out great in focus quality, I’ll see if I can redo it with a proper video camera.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwB4_CDSS2w&feature=youtu.be <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwB4_CDSS2w&feature=youtu.be>
>
>
> Cheers, André
>
>
>
>
>
>> Op 9 jul. 2015, om 00:35 heeft Andre Huijts <a.huijts at upcmail.nl> het volgende geschreven:
>>
>> For what it’s worth…..not sure which ROM versions they are so your mileage may vary…. :D
>>
>>
>>
>> ROM location
>> Address range
>> Signature Midway
>> Signature Namco
>> Galaxian
>> 7U
>> 000-7FF
>> E8E3
>> 7A5F
>>
>> 7V
>> 800-FFF
>> 59F7
>> B6F3
>>
>> 7W
>> 1000-17FF
>> A069
>> 18ED
>>
>> 7Y
>> 1800-1FFF
>> 22E6
>> 917F
>>
>> 7Z
>> 2000-27FF
>> 7D9A
>> 1EA2
>>
>>
>>
>> André Huijts
>> andre.huijts at upcmail.nl
>>
>>
>>

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