The FinalGROM 99

[+OLD CS1]

Ahh then I'd say it's the power supply the fr99 is picky on a few consoles I have it refused to read cards.

 

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Over the weekend I will try a non-QI power supply and see what happens.

[+Ksarul]

Note also that the QI boards don't put all of the same lines onto the cartridge port either. I think CRUIN and one more are missing. . .

Edited November 3, 2017 by Ksarul

[+OLD CS1]

Note also that the QI boards don't put all of the same lines onto the cartridge port either. I think CRUIN and one more are missing. . .

 

Yeah, we were discussing that at the Faire, but did we ever figure out what exactly is missing?

[+Ksarul]

I have to go back to my notes from the 512K Green board development process. Marc Hull and I documented it while we were working on that one.

[+OLD CS1]

Welp, yup. I have now tried two different "QI" boards with both old and "QI" power supplies, and also swapped the GROM port posts just to be sure. The problem appears to be the "QI" boards.

 

I am kind-of bummed as this has been my main non-F18A system and it is beige. Ah, well.

 

It would be interesting to figure out what the problem is.

[+helocast]

 

Yeah, we were discussing that at the Faire, but did we ever figure out what exactly is missing?

I tracked this down before when I was cleaning up incorrect values on my copy of the original non-QI schematic. I'm not aware of any other missing signals on a QI's GROM port, except for two:

Pin #4: CRUCLK-

Pin #6: CRUIN

Both lines seemed to retain the same, small resistor values between boards as they terminate at pins 22 (CRUCLK.A-) & 33 (CRUIN) respectively on the console I/O side port.

I wish I could assist tracking it for you as I have most of my non-QI boards weeded out, but alas, I haven't got ahead enough on hobby finances to take the FG99 plunge.

Edited November 5, 2017 by helocast

[+Ksarul]

I think Marc has a QI board where he jumpered the two missing lines over to the cartridge port for one of his tests. If he has a FinalGROM, it might make sense to have him check this odd behavior with that board and see if it clears up. . .

[digdugnate]

As I was playing with my RS232 card, I loaded up TI-Writer through the FG99- when you launch TI-Writer and select 'Text Editor', mine garbled up the text and gave me the FG menu again

 

Does this have to do with how the FG99 reads the memory from the TI-Writer 'cart'?

 

I have the complete binder for TI-Writer, so this was more a curiosity than anything.

[sparkdrummer]

Is there a converted cartridge of ADVERTISER available for the FINALGROM?
I have a disk with programs that use this cart. I have loaded the cart into my GK, but a FINALGROM version would be much more convenient.

[+arcadeshopper]

Is there a converted cartridge of ADVERTISER available for the FINALGROM?

I have a disk with programs that use this cart. I have loaded the cart into my GK, but a FINALGROM version would be much more convenient.

 

does it have an ea5 loadable part? or gram ?

[PeteE]

There's an advertiser rpk here. Open it using a zip program to get the advert.bin, and rename that to advertg.bin for the FinalGROM99. If it requires GRAM, there's a byte in the header that will need to be changed.

[+arcadeshopper]

There's an advertiser rpk here. Open it using a zip program to get the advert.bin, and rename that to advertg.bin for the FinalGROM99. If it requires GRAM, there's a byte in the header that will need to be changed.

 

oh cool a grom then, easy as that just stick a g on the end and load it on the card

[+arcadeshopper]

after looking at this, it has no program header..so it won't load on the finalgrom unless possibly with only this single grom on a card..

 

Greg

[sparkdrummer]

I have the Gram file - when I load it into the Gram Kracker and then reset to title screen nothing shows up except 1 for TI Basic.

You then enter TI basic perform a CALL FILES(9), NEW and then you can load ADVERTISER specific files. They are really kind of neat and ADVERTISER adds quite a few new calls. Most, if not all of the files are from Europe.

[ralphb]

after looking at this, it has no program header..so it won't load on the finalgrom unless possibly with only this single grom on a card..

 

After my vacation, I'm still recovering from some Himalayan flu, but:

No, the FinalGROM 99 will not see it, even when in single mode. I didn't know something like this existed, so I'm only looking at the programs, not at the subroutines (ADVERTISER does have a GPL header, though).

I could add this case to the FinalGROM 99, however, to both single and menu mode. Give me some time for the patch ...

[Flottmann1]

here a Clip, I load it with the Wiesbaden Supermodul

 

 

any Pictures from the Cartridge and the Grom from the 2 x 2532 Eproms (run it with Classic99)and the DEMO Disc

 

 

ADV2532G.BIN

ad-koeln.dsk

[PeteE]

So I got a FlashAir wireless SD card to test with the FinalGrom99, and it is a great success! I am able to upload files from my PC directly to the SD card while it is in the cartridge, press the reset button to refresh the directory listing. To configure the upload capability, set "UPLOAD=1" and "WEBDAV=2" in the "SD_WLAN\CONFIG" file, but it only works with W-03 or W-04 cards. There is also a FlashAir Developers site with some interesting things to do with the card.

[+retroclouds]

So I got a FlashAir wireless SD card to test with the FinalGrom99, and it is a great success! I am able to upload files from my PC directly to the SD card while it is in the cartridge, press the reset button to refresh the directory listing. To configure the upload capability, set "UPLOAD=1" and "WEBDAV=2" in the "SD_WLAN\CONFIG" file, but it only works with W-03 or W-04 cards. There is also a FlashAir Developers site with some interesting things to do with the card.

Thanks for the heads up. This is great news, I will be looking for such card. This comes in very handy for the development workflow on the pc and testing in the real deal. :-)

[Omega-TI]

So I got a FlashAir wireless SD card to test with the FinalGrom99, and it is a great success! I am able to upload files from my PC directly to the SD card while it is in the cartridge, press the reset button to refresh the directory listing. To configure the upload capability, set "UPLOAD=1" and "WEBDAV=2" in the "SD_WLAN\CONFIG" file, but it only works with W-03 or W-04 cards. There is also a FlashAir Developers site with some interesting things to do with the card.

 

Okay, THIS can be of great value to many people. I'm going to ask you a favor here that can benefit the whole community...

Could you please make a PDF file, with photos if possible on how this all works. When people see what it can do for them and how to do it, I believe more people will hop aboard the train.

 

** EDIT ** -- You already sold me though!

And to think, when you thought the FinalGrom 99 could not be any more convenient... it is!

[Omega-TI]

Thanks for the heads up. This is great news, I will be looking for such card. This comes in very handy for the development workflow on the pc and testing in the real deal. :-)

 

... or simply if you don't want to take the time to fumble around with the SD card. I love this! Download, send, play. Easy as 1,2,3!

[digdugnate]

So I got a FlashAir wireless SD card to test with the FinalGrom99, and it is a great success! I am able to upload files from my PC directly to the SD card while it is in the cartridge, press the reset button to refresh the directory listing. To configure the upload capability, set "UPLOAD=1" and "WEBDAV=2" in the "SD_WLAN\CONFIG" file, but it only works with W-03 or W-04 cards. There is also a FlashAir Developers site with some interesting things to do with the card.

That's pretty neat. i had been swapping my SD into my work laptop (it has an SD card reader), but super cool idea!

[Omega-TI]

The attached manual may be of some interest for people to review before purchasing.

FlashAirSetting.pdf

[+OLD CS1]

 

 

 

IEEE802.11 b/g/n

 

Living in a 2.4GHz world,

And I am a 5GHz girl...

[+remowilliams]

The FlashAir is easily configurable to be used as a Windows/SMB network share which is how I use them. You don't need to use that horrific software that Toshiba provides for configuration.

 

In the cards SD_WLAN directory there is a CONFIG file. Copy it somewhere safe and then replace the contents in it as follows, editing the APPSSID, APPNETWORKKEY and APPNAME/PRODUCT as needed/desired.

 

Note: I have only used and can verify this works with the W-03 model cards

 

[Vendor]
UPLOAD=1
UPDIR=/
CIPATH=/DCIM/100__TSB/FA000001.JPG
APPMODE=5
APPSSID=YourNetworkSSID
APPNETWORKKEY=YourSSIDPassword
APPAUTOTIME=0
APPNAME=FG99
PRODUCT=FG99
VENDOR=TOSHIBA
WEBDAV=2
DNSMODE=1
LOCK=1
APPINFO=0000000000000000

These values will be different per card, copy them from your existing CONFIG and merge them with the above.

VERSION=
CID=
MASTERCODE=

Add this if you wish to have a static IP vs DHCP, customize as needed.

DHCP_Enabled=NO
IP_Address=192.168.1.155
Subnet_Mask=255.255.255.0
Default_Gateway=192.168.1.1
Preferred_DNS_Server=192.168.1.1

If you do this correctly, the card will be available via network share as \\FG99\folder, where folder is a directory that exists at the root level of the card.

 

An important tip - if you have the FlashAir in a device (such as a USB card reader) that automatically powers down things not actively in use (and many of them do) the FlashAir will join your network and then drop off shortly afterwards as the device power saves it..

 

 

This section of the Toshiba site defines all the settings for the CONFIG file https://www.flashair-developers.com/en/documents/api/config/

[+OLD CS1]

Gotta say, that is a pretty impressive suite of software running on an SD card: TCP/IP stack, SMB (maybe Samba,) Bonjour, a web server and lua scripting, DHCP client, DNS client, proxy client, WPA supplicant, and more.