TheMontezuma Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Test passed But I can't activate any IS Plate slot with the rotary knob... Is it normal? It goes like that: FL; E(1-4); S(1-4); y(1-4); o(1-4); t(1-4); H(1-4); U(1-4); A(1-4); d(1-4); u(1-4); and then FL again. I can do that from the Megaspeedy menu / Flasher menu, but the display does not show 'I1 / I2 / I3 / I4'. It is actually not a complain. I just want to understand if I did everything properly or something went wrong by CPLD programming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiassofT Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 Test passed Very good! But I can't activate any IS Plate slot with the rotary knob... Is it normal? It goes like that: FL; E(1-4); S(1-4); y(1-4); o(1-4); t(1-4); H(1-4); U(1-4); A(1-4); d(1-4); u(1-4); and then FL again. I can do that from the Megaspeedy menu / Flasher menu, but the display does not show 'I1 / I2 / I3 / I4'. You also have to update the config ROM (using config.rom) - that's the thing responsible for mode selection with the knob at power up. so long, Hias 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMontezuma Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 You also have to update the config ROM (using config.rom) - that's the thing responsible for mode selection with the knob at power up. Thank you, Hias! That was the last missing part in the puzzle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMontezuma Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Finally everything works perfectly! Megaspeedy is really well designed to support future extensions "IS Plate" is the best example that adding completely new hardware is just a matter of updating CPLD and flash. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Spotted this on eBay. I.S. 1050 Plate Enhancement Manual.pdf IS Plate.zip Lazer Ultraspeed 1050 Supercharger (IS Plate).atr I've confirmed that these versions of Happy & Lazer are working for the IS Plate emulation mode. The normal versions will hang the drive when programming Backup Mode. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarijana Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 (edited) Very Cool the I.S. Plate. The ROM for the Mega Speedy is found at pastebin, search "isplate ROM" with Yahoo or Bing, first entry. Tested - even works! Edited April 21, 2018 by Atarijana 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Just a quick warning as this was driving me bonkers. My MSpeedy drives were intermittently detecting the IS P mode. After reading the IS P manual, I found out what my problem was and why it was intermittent. If the drive is powered on in IS P mode with a write protected disk or in my case a toggle switch, it is automatically disabled and in slow mode. Now seeing both fine 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 (edited) Funny how 'alike' the I.S. Plate is to the Happy Software. I presume this is a brazen rip-off of the Happy + Software, but it seems they did add quite a bit of useful features, and a full set of software right off the bat and 'drive emulation' tools too. Even the Customizer tool, no one seems to have the Happy version of that anymore. Starting at both $0F77 and $1F77 of the 8KByte ROM on pastebin has this text: (At first glance, the base 4KB may be repeated in the upper 4KB?) THIS ROM PROGRAM (c)1986,87 INNOVATED SOFTWARE, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED! REVISION 2.0.0 Compared to Happy 1050 Rev 2 ROM THIS ROM PROGRAM (C) 1984 HAPPY COMPUTERS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED. Seems pretty similar... Edited April 23, 2018 by Nezgar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarijana Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Yeah, split it in two parts. Only the first 4K are used e.g. for the Mega Speedy. The other part is exactly (md5) the same. I also think that they wanted to jump on the train, so maybe Happy had taken it as a model. Who knows... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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