Just wanted to say first post!!, well this is a cool prog too.

Doesn't the current AMS software also do that after a crash? Mine's been pretty stable after I stopped playing games on it and it's been so long since it crashed I can't quite remember.

Sometimes the AMS forget to recover archived files after a crash, this program correct this bug.

Did'nt you read TI documentation ? :)
When an archived file is erased, he is infact only marked by suppression, so you may recover all the archived files you deleted since the last garbage collection.
It's also quite explained, but of course in our good old deep french ;)
It must work just like AU3 as well (this "Archive Utility 3"'s option was not included in new AMS 2.0X)
Nicolas

This isn't a new idea. Archive Utility 3.0 had this feature (although it was very buggy). On that note, if anyone still has Archive Utility 2.0 I'd be VERY happy. If you have it, email it to me. I'd love to go back to AMS 1.0 where the teachers can't erase all my memory :)

Have you a TI89 ?
I tried many times to go back to AMS 1.00, but never succesful, even if there was no problem with going back to AMS 1.05 or older... (???)
Maybe with tibreceiver ?
Nevertheless, 2.05 seems to be stable as well. :)

TIB receiver does not work with AMS versions. HW2 calcs can NOT go back to AMS 1.00, they can only go back to AMS 1.05.

But I have an HW1 calculator ?!?

There is also a program like this for 83+ MirageOS called Archive Recover. It's small and works pretty nicely too, although most of the time TIOS recovers archived data after a crash.

How will AMS 1.0 not keep stuff from being erased?

This program (not surprisingly) doesn't work with AMS 2.05. Unfortunately, I somehow lost ALL my memory yesterday when I used TiLP 4.17 to transfer the Euchre game to my calculator. 17 days worth of programming was lost, and that's a LOT of work for me (about 20-30 programs). Needless to say I was displeased that my AMS version was incompatible... but life goes on, I suppose.

This prog doesn't work for me. BTW how possibly can you recover deleted files? Or they aren't actually deleted?

Flash memory has a limited number of writes. Any given block of memory may only be written to about 100,000 times. In order to keep this from being a problem, systems using Flash store files sequentially. Any deleted file is simply marked as deleted. Once the entire user space is filled, the system will go back and reorganize the flash memory ("garbage collection"). At this point, all deleted files will be removed and the free space will be grouped together. So, if you unmark the file, it can be used again instead of being deleted.

-Sean

More than likely than not, however, you will either wear out or replace your calculator long before you've written to FLASH 100,000 times.

Thanks for a brief explanation guys!

Hi !

Sorry for that :(
Normaly, FlashSavior is supposed to work on all AMS...(I have currently AMS 2.05, and it works fine...)
But FlashSavior is an assembly program, and it's the first public version, so it's surely not bugfree :(

I'm not sure to understand what hapened to you. Could you be more precise ?
In fact, I don't undersand what TiLP can have done in this problem...

In any case, if you haven't performed a garbage collection since the crash (and if your files were in Archive Memory),
DUMP YOUR ROM WITH THE WIZARD OF VTI, and send it to me by e-mail (asm_dev@voonoo.net).
I will try to recover your files anyway, but don't hope to much ;)
(just lord_nightrose, not the others if there are any, I won't have the time for fifty persons)


Thibaut and I will do an update soon, with litle bug correction, and we will make an English readme in tis version :)

have a nice day :)
Julien MONVILLE


P.S.
don't forget that you must launch FlashSavior a first time to make a backup named FlashBak!

Dis donc, tu parle vachement bien l'anglais #eek# (ha merde c'est sur ti-fr ça ;) ).
Ils sont contents ou pas ?

Et tu as vu ?
On a même nos profiles sur ce site !!! Délire :))

hey! english here! i don't know french! pero, puedes hablar en espanol.

Hey, I'm only in French I! I don't know all that stuff!!!


Mon ordinateur est une sandwich au fromage.

Flash Savior crashes my HW2 AMS v1.05 calc whenever I try to run it...what's wrong?

Get AMS 2.0x and itll work fine. 1.05 dosent use flash rom.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that, probably cause I used to have 2.0x on my old calc (the one that got lost). Thanx!

Um, I'm pretty sure all the AMS's use the Flash ROM

good point Derek... seeing how all AMS versions are on TI-89s with Flash memory built-in. Of COURSE 1.05 uses Flash.

Doi...

Hey great program!! Finally something like this that can work on ams 2.0x. I found a bug though. I have a hw1 2.03 calc and when flashsavior gets to folder main, it crashes. If you need it, I'll send a list of the programs in the main folder. Its not the first file, because I tried moving it.

I am now replying to the first comment I ever posted, almost 2 years later.

At least, I think this is the earliest post I ever made... I can't find an earlier one.