Working on Making Speedy System Disk Totally English

[rcamp48]

I am in the process of making the software for the Mini Speedy totally English from start to finish, here is what I have so far, two pictures for release:

 

 

[rcamp48]

Bad light in the early morning resulting in images on my TV.

 

[xrbrevin]

thanks - that will be useful :)

but can the ROM also be modded to use english in the built-in menu?

[rcamp48]

19 minutes ago, xrbrevin said:

thanks - that will be useful

but can the ROM also be modded to use english in the built-in menu?

Yes , all of the prompts are on the disk, not the ROM,  am working on translating the two help pages

 

[+Nezgar]

On 7/14/2019 at 2:56 PM, rcamp48 said:

Yes , all of the prompts are on the disk, not the ROM,  am working on translating the two help pages

 

The built-n sector copier and Bibo-DOS would be in the drive ROM. (What you get when you boot the computer with no disk present in the drive)

 

If it doesn't do any checksums, it should be as easy as replacing the text strings in the ROM dump and programming a replacement EPROM.

 

Project for a rainy day.

 

PS: "copyer" should be "copier", "(u)" would become "(c)"

[HiassofT]

5 minutes ago, Nezgar said:

If it doesn't do any checksums, it should be as easy as replacing the text strings in the ROM dump and programming a replacement EPROM.

The Speedy has ROM checksums, but it's easy to correct them. I wrote a tool to do that a couple years ago, it's in the Mega Speedy software ZIP

https://www.horus.com/~hias/megaspeedy/software/megaspeedy-software-V1.10-20170923.zip

in src/romcsum (both C source code and a Win32 exe) - it works with 8k, 16k and 32k (latter Mega Speedy) plain ROM dumps (without any COM/EXE headers).

 

If started with one argument it wil verify the checksum of the ROM, if started with two arguments it will save a ROM with correct checksum to the second file - eg "romcsum patched.rom fixedcsum.rom"

 

so long,

 

Hias

[rcamp48]

Another day I am afraid , until my BBS is up and running properly , I have to focus on that, it would be a nice project but I am simply too busy at the moment, everything is focused on the BBS.