Re: 100+ games on .po image for CFFA

[Nama <forums6000@mac.com>]

On May 14, 6:14 pm, Nama <forums6...@mac.com> wrote:
> On May 11, 8:40 am, Polymorph <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > On May 9, 9:30 pm, Nick Westgate <Nick.Westg...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On May 9, 2:23 pm, "Polymorph" <polymo...@a2central.com.remove-gf4-
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> > > > * Moon Patrol - played but crashed after 1st stage
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> > > You mean first checkpoint? (E or something?)
> > > That's probably the bad version that uses the 0x02 opcode.
> > > There's another version that works fine.
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> > > Cheers,
> > > Nick.
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> > Yep, thats what I was referring to (in Moon Patrol) - it crashed after
> > the first check point. So probably need to replace the bad version
> > with the version Nick mentioned above.
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> > Cheers,
> > Mike
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> Okk, thanks for the replies.
> Thats weird then, as Apple Invaders always crashes on my machine, and
> I can't remember it crashing before I did theCFFA2.0 upgrade. Maybe
> I'll email Richard and ask him if he knows of any issues, maybe I
> could try returning to an olderCFFAfirmware and testing that.
> I guess I could always try copying Apple Invaders to a floppy and
> testing it from there too, just to make sure it's not an issue with
> the Apple II+ instead of theCFFA.
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> Nick, where would I find the good Moon Patrol?
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> Also, I'll try zipping the file up for easier download.
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> Phil

Finally I had some time this weekend to downgrade the firmware of my
CFFA card.
As there are two eeprom banks, I installed both version 1.0 and
version 2.0 of the CFFA firmware onto the card.

The good news is that when I downgraded to version 1.0, Apple invaders
(and all the other games that didn't previously work) on my 100 game
CFFA card now work! Unfortunately, that means firmware v2.0 is
definitely causing some issues in running these programs on my II+.
When I removing JP3 (to activate firmware v2.0), the games no longer
run as before.

I've emailed Rich with the news, hopefully we can get to the bottom of
the issue.

Phil