candle Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Hi! this is flash update ultility for side loader on side cartridge - you can put it in any directory of fat32 media you want and run it as any other file, or use any sio2pc solution to load it from pc its not pretty, but has prooven to work both under altirra and real hardware currently its very rough, and doesn't display anything - just does it thing and restart the loader it should work fine for amic a29040b and any am29f040 device, if you have sst39sf040 flash chip on your side - please wait for more mature version, or you're likely to brick your cart (not that it would be not recoverable) so here goes nothing - you have been warned! side-update.xex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 I am very courageous so I upgraded my Side (am29f040). I had no problems and was rewarded by Atari's beautiful colors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 thus you didn't get updated i'm working on this (old am29f040 doesn't support togglebit algorithm, or at least so it seems) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 I "upgraded" by putting "side-update.xex" on the CF card and I launched it from SIDE loader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 I updated also but, I had to press RESET key to get back to my list of game.xex's. And later reboots dends to be more as described in descriptions of how SIDE should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 if it didn't automatically returned to the list, but displayed rainbow, then it failed to update if you could report your chip type it would be of great importance 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 (edited) if it didn't automatically returned to the list, but displayed rainbow, then it failed to update if you could report your chip type it would be of great importance My chip is AM29F040B. so I guess it didn't update. Looking though a jeweler's loop the above # is now corrected from AMPSF040S. My rainbow only effected the border's of screen. Edited March 31, 2012 by rdea6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 you're sure about the name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 ok, it should work at least it works here side-update.xex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Mine has the am29f040 device and when ran from the SIDE Loader, the HDD lights up multiple times, then remains as a black screen... Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 ok, it should work at least it works here YES...This flash did its thing and returned to the SIDE loader as expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Hmmm, after trying it on a 130xe+U1mb, stock 130xe, stock 65XE, it finally worked using the 800xl+U1mb Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 Jay, could you load it from sio2pc or alike on remaining systems? this is most odd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Okay, I was successfull at flashing it using SIO2SD on both 130xe+U1mb and 800xl+U1mb, but I had to do do it in these steps: 1) Set switch on Side to "Loader". 2) Turn on A8. 3) After booting, set switch back to SDX enabled. 4) a. Hold Side reset button and b. press OPT + Reset on keyboard. 5) After DOS boots from SIO2SD, load Side Flasher. 6) If flasher didn't work, go back to step 4b. 7) Flasher worked, shows multiple flickering rainbows, then displays Side Loader menu... Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 more mature version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 ok, it should work at least it works here SIDE (am29f040), updater launched from SIDE's loader: HDD lights up multiple times, then a black screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 more mature version side-update.xex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 more mature version SIDE (am29f040), updater launched from SIDE's loader and from a DOS 2.5 .atr: rainbow colors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 stationary or moving? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 stationary or moving? Stationary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Going by my steps in post#14, I tried the latest flasher and it now goes straight to the SIDE Loader after showing the moving rainbows on the first try One thing I noticed is that if you try to use it on a 130xe in SDX, SDX says it's not a binary load file, but on a 800xl, SDX says there is a memory conflict... Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 I upgraded! Now folders/files are automatically sorted! I upgraded from SIDE loader, after various resets and loader/sdx selector movements. Perhaps upgrade succeded because, after reading AtariGeezer post, I added a 320KB memory expansion to my stock 800XL (but I don't think so). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 it doesn't use any additional ram i've implemented documented information in my code, if there is some kind of black magic going on, then i wouldn't know, since i only have one side cart i've build myself, and its not exacly exact of what zaxon was selling (especially flash chip is diffrent) anyways, just to iron it a bit more, here is final update (some quirks with up/down/left/right movements were corrected): side-update.xex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Something strange happened, after I flashed my SIDE's on the 800xl+U1mb and 130xe+U1mb, the internal Basic image on the U1mb's has been disabled/erased. The 800xl+U1mb now only shows a blank blue screen with SIDE removed and the 130xe+U1mb just goes to the Sef Test... Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted April 2, 2012 Author Share Posted April 2, 2012 flasher checks for side cart before flashing, and if not found, goes into infinite loop beside this, basic and side loader are in diffrent banks, so it couldn't happend anyway if check failed (given false true) for some reason, and it would flash into ultimate flash instead, it would flash into sdx image area Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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