Re: ti-emu: Frustration


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Re: ti-emu: Frustration



> In article <96Aug20.180245bst.36715@u-net.net>, Rob Taylor
> <rtaylor@ticalc.org> writes
> >
> >> In article <96Aug19.111602bst.36313@u-net.net>, Rob Taylor
> >> <rtaylor@ticalc.org> writes
> >> >
> >> >> I don't believe that no one has got ZS to work with the emulator!! Will
> >> >> someone (anyone) send me whatever I need to get it to work!! I have a
> >> >> ROM 6 dump.
> >> >> 
> >> >The peobelm is that teh rom-dump program has a bug that causes it to 
> >> >miss out teh last byte of the rom, which is teh byet that zshell uses 
> >> >to check which rom version it is running on: to make it work you need 
> >> >to correct this last byte usin a hex editor: here are what you should 
> >> >change it to (make sure you use the right byte for you rom  version)
> >> >
> >> >   $57: 3.0A
> >> >   $8E: 4.0
> >> >   $3D: 6.0
> >> >   $97: 8.0
> >> >   $91: 9.0
> >> >   $35: 10.0
> >> 
> >> I changed the last byte of the page7 dump to $3D. That didn't work. Then
> >> I added $3D to the end, so that the page7 dump was one byte longer. That
> >> didn't work either. Which is correct, and could you send be a backup.bin
> >> with ZS in it? I have the img files. ti85 b:zs1.img right?
> >
> >You do know taht you need to concate teh pages together to produce 
> >TI85ROM.BIN? so you should have a file called TI-85ORM.BIN that is 128K 
> >long (exactly) and teh last byte of which is $3d
> 
> That is what I have. I put backup.bin in the emulator directory and then
> type ti85. I get a screen displaying ' RROR 23 STAT' with F1 goto and F5
> quit. Surely if the rom dump program misses the last byte, it will miss
> the last byte of each rom page, not just the last one? ZS doesn't work
> with zs1.img and zs2.img either. Could it be that my backup.bin is
> corrupt? But it is the correct length. I used the dump program from
> ftp.stuba.sk if it is any help. I remembered to use the /b switch when
> copying the files together. 
> 
> Thanks for the help,


Just try starting all over again.. that should work..
N.B. the byte you change should be 00 to begin with..


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