Re: CBM 600/700 Diagnostic Cartridge

Steve,
of course you may post it. Hopefully it will be helpful for someone.

Christian

Am 22.11.2012 20:11, schrieb Steve Gray:
> Thanks for the info. Do you mind if I post the zip with readme and 
> binary on my site?
> Steve
>
>     *From:* Christian Dirks <Toast_r@IdeaLine.info>
>     *To:* cbm-hackers@musoftware.de
>     *Sent:* Thursday, November 22, 2012 12:43:06 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: CBM 600/700 Diagnostic Cartridge
>
>     Hi Steve,
>     unfortunately, only a few parts of the set seem to be original
>     commodore.
>     There are labels on the eprom and the user-port connector, that
>     appear to be original.
>     The RS232C connector was missing. The other connectors were
>     reduild ones.
>     The cartridge pcb is a 3rd party one. There is no housing.
>
>     According to the owner, who was a commodore wholesaler at that
>     time, the diagnostic set was originally build by commodore, but
>     they often were not able to deliver the sets. So he rebuild the
>     sets for other dealers.
>
>     Christian
>
>
>
>     Am 22.11.2012 17:23, schrieb Steve Gray:
>>     Hi Christian,
>>     This is nice. Thanks for posting!
>>     I'm curious about the cartridge.. Is this an "official" CBM
>>     Cartridge, or custom-made? I've never seen an official Commodore
>>     CBM-II cartridge. All the ones I've seen are made by Handic.
>>     If so, could you take a few pictures of it (outside and inside)
>>     for inclusion on my CBM-II web page?
>>     Thanks!
>>     Steve
>>
>>         *From:* Christian Dirks mailto:Toast_r@IdeaLine.info
>>         *To:* cbm-hackers@musoftware.de
>>         <mailto:cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
>>         *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2012 5:38:04 PM
>>         *Subject:* CBM 600/700 Diagnostic Cartridge
>>
>>         Hi all,
>>         I was lent a CBM 600/700 diagnostic cartridge by a friend.
>>         Although he had not all test connectors available, using the
>>         trial and error method, I got it to work.
>>         I documented the test connectors and dumped the EPORM.
>>         The .bin file and the information on the test connectors can
>>         be found at:
>>         http://www.idealine.info/CBM/CBM_600-700_DIAG.zip
>>
>>         A look at the .bin shows it is mapped at $2000.
>>         A cycle counter and the results of the runing test cycle are
>>         displayed on the screen.
>>         There is no SID test result diplayed. You should hear three
>>         pings and a hiss.
>>         Unfortunately, commodore did not implement counters for the
>>         test results, so if a test fails once, but is OK in the next
>>         cycles, the failure will not be noticed unless a bad cycle is
>>         observed.
>>         Maybe someone with better programming skills would like to
>>         add test result counters.
>>         I think it also would be nice to have DRAM testing for banks
>>         0-14, not only 1-4.
>>
>>
>>         Christian
>>
>>         -- Christian Dirks
>>         Toast_r@Idealine.info <mailto:Toast_r@Idealine.info>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Christian Dirks
>     Toast_r@Idealine.info  <mailto:Toast_r@Idealine.info>
>
>
>


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Toast_r@Idealine.info




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