jonc Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 (edited) Hi Been having problems trying to get Sketch mate to load ive tried EA MM and Xb Hardware is naverone widget and F18a nanopeb Speech Synth any help would be much appreciated Edited November 9, 2020 by jonc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 What all is involved in doing that? You place the super sketch module in and turn on the computer and Select the SS program. Then what is your next step? I own an SS but never used it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Sketch Mate requires that you load it via E/A then switch to the Super Sketch cartridge by either preventing the module reset at insertion or use something like the Widget to switch between the two cartridges. I have never tried this so I have nothing to provide here. I think Sketch Mate replaces all functionality of the cartridge ROM, so I would love to replace the on-board ROM. (Assuming it is ROM and no GROM.) 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 I Know I once took my SS apart and it's nothing but a mouse it seems. I suppose one could just make a mouse out of it IF it wasn't working right or just wanted to. But you have an interesting project. I hope you succeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonc Posted November 10, 2020 Author Share Posted November 10, 2020 (edited) Thanks for your replies when I load the sketch mate there is a burst of disk activity then in stead of loading the sketch mate screen i get a garbled noise then it sounds like its loading but nothing appears on screen no matter how long i wait. its meant to load the sketch mate screen then you can switch cartridges to super sketch then that should give ss the ability to print and save to disk I have tried a couple sketch mate dsk images one i got on here and one i copied from a real floppy they both do the same I can only Think it is a nanopeb incompatibility I would be interested to see If anyone else can get the Sketch Mate Program to load to the title screen as i say sketch mate.dsk is on a previous thread you need to load and run DSK1.SKETCH on EA Or MM or just let Xb load automatically Cheers.... Edited November 10, 2020 by jonc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 (edited) Ahh. This gives me reason to try it. I think I might have the disk too. The secret is unplugging the cart and plugging in xb. Hmm...I'm not sure that will work.. but we'll see. Unfortunately, I'm halfway of out the door to get the dog a haircut and some shopping with the kid. But maybe tommorow I'll give it a try. Thx Edited November 10, 2020 by GDMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonc Posted November 10, 2020 Author Share Posted November 10, 2020 That would be great thank you Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 2 hours ago, jonc said: Thanks for your replies when I load the sketch mate there is a burst of disk activity then in stead of loading the sketch mate screen i get a garbled noise then it sounds like its loading but nothing appears on screen no matter how long i wait. its meant to load the sketch mate screen then you can switch cartridges to super sketch then that should give ss the ability to print and save to disk I have tried a couple sketch mate dsk images one i got on here and one i copied from a real floppy they both do the same I can only Think it is a nanopeb incompatibility I would be interested to see If anyone else can get the Sketch Mate Program to load to the title screen as i say sketch mate.dsk is on a previous thread you need to load and run DSK1.SKETCH on EA Or MM or just let Xb load automatically Cheers.... sounds like it.. can you attach the dsk image? I'll try it here with both the nano and a sidecar 32k/tipi setup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonc Posted November 10, 2020 Author Share Posted November 10, 2020 Hi i can run a program on the sketchmate.disk called DEFINE which sets up the printer so the dsk is readable it just wont install Im sorry but i dont know what you mean by attatch the dsk image Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 4 minutes ago, jonc said: Hi i can run a program on the sketchmate.disk called DEFINE which sets up the printer so the dsk is readable it just wont install Im sorry but i dont know what you mean by attatch the dsk image attach it to this message group so we can download what you are trying and try it didn't you say you had a dsk image? maybe point a link to where you got it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonc Posted November 10, 2020 Author Share Posted November 10, 2020 (edited) Sorry here the link Edited November 10, 2020 by jonc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 So I see in my pbox system sketchmate loads and then immediately tries to read from the physical DSK1. even with the TIPI DSK1. being set..SO they seem to be doing some sort of direct access to the disk controller. Then it crashes hard and I have to power down the expansion box to recover. Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonc Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 HI Greg t hanks for that Still no luck here I tried a different CF card in the nano that didnt work either Its starting to annoy me now....... Do you think its the Dsk image at fault? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonc Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 Greg do you use TIdir to create disk images for the nanopeb Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 7 minutes ago, jonc said: HI Greg t hanks for that Still no luck here I tried a different CF card in the nano that didnt work either Its starting to annoy me now....... Do you think its the Dsk image at fault? I am leaning that way, it smells like some sort of copy protection there's a weird file in there too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonc Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 Yes that DEFAULT[] one I do have a 3 1/2 and 5 inch disk which I extracted v9t9 image that appears to be exactly the same as the one posted on here Wish I had a real floppy set up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 is that the filename? on my end it came out as different oh its a special file and it's not a TIFILE format.. according to tidir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 does the same crash in classic99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonc Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 (edited) Thats the one Greg I dont have classic 99 maybe thats worth a shot or is it v9t9 anyway ill give it a go tomorrow cheers Greg , just remembered I tried to delete that file in TIdir and it wouldnt do it Edited November 12, 2020 by jonc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonc Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 Failed in exactly the same way on V9t9 emulator as it did on the Ti tried EA and Xb so it must be a DSK/DISK problem. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonc Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 (edited) Went back to TI-PC which copies real ti floppy to ti files and checked out my original floppy and before it is copied it shows the DEFAULT file as a PROGRAM but after the transfer to DSK file it Shows as UKNOWN and cant be edited. As you said Greg it must be copy protected and the DSK image is useless So I guess thats it unless I get a TI floppy set up, anyway thanks for your help Jon Edited November 13, 2020 by jonc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Took a look at it... After loading DSK1.SKETCH, (with the XB loader, I believe), it jumps into the code at >BE32. It runs some code to overwrite part of the scratchpad -- part of this includes overwriting the top of VRAM address (and looks valid, but it doesn't appear to tell the disk controller... however at some point a valid signature was loaded there.) It then directly reads DSK1, sector 257. This appears to be the second to last sector of the file "S3". It then reads just two bytes out of the sector, at offset 0x1C. This gets >3842 from the middle of line 0166, and stores them at >A0A8. This is then compared to the value in R9 which is >2042. The mismatch sends it off to >B3FC, in the middle of a data copy loop which now has a length of >0000, and so it intends to copy 64k of data and thereby crashes. When this test passes, it loads "DEFAULT" from disk (including the corrupt-looking character, so that's valid) and then the SketchMate title page comes up. I can't test further than that with Classic99. When I forced a jump past the switch detection it was unhappy, but there are any number of reasons for that! I don't know the original intent, but it kind of looks like the files were copied to a new disk rather than a disk copy being done, and so they moved. A quick search finds >2042 in only two places, though neither is at the correct sector offset (which I would expect even if it was a file copy error). They are both in the file PRINTER. Anyway, it's probably easiest to just patch out the check, that's what I've done here. I looked for a similar sequence elsewhere and I found a couple, so with fingers crossed I cleared them all. They were at these disk image offsets, in these files: 5FD0 S2 9A10 S3 D310 SKETCH And here's the relevant code. S2 and S3 have the BLWPs to different addresses. B400 16FD jne >b3fc B402 C047 mov R7,R1 B404 0420 blwp @>c576 set up PAB? C576 B408 0420 blwp @>c37c DSRLNK - read sector 257 -> change to 1007 (JMP >B418) C37C B40C 000A data >000a B40E C008 mov R8,R0 B410 0420 blwp @>c57e VMBR (gets 3842) C57E B414 85C9 c R9,*R7 Compare to >2042 B416 16F2 jne >b3fc jump on failure - deliberate crash I don't know for certain if the changes to S2 and S3 are right since I don't know when they load, but, it was the same code path. If they are now broken and used to work, we can change them back. SketchMate_Patched.dsk 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonc Posted November 15, 2020 Author Share Posted November 15, 2020 Great work Tursi works great with the Super Sketch, thank you this has been bugging me for weeks now im going to fire up the Epson and do some drawing? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 tursi FTW! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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