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From: Tim Knight on 15 Feb 2010 10:12 This cartridge is a bit long....2 3/4 X 5 3/8 inches. Inside is a pcboard with one chip and the following lettering on the board: AEA 013 032 comm 64-1 The chip has a white paper label "E 1037" Booting my C64 I get the usual top line: 64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE With the cartridge inserted, 38911 changes to 30719 There are no labels on the case......only the following is scratched into the cover: OK 492-38-XXXX. This may be a Social Security Number from the State of Missouri so I did not include the last 4 digits. Any ideas? CT
From: polishedball on 15 Feb 2010 10:26 I beliebe AEA only made these carts AEA-SOFT Com Packratt Com Fax Doctor QSO MBA-TOR Morse University Have no idea what it might be though. On Feb 15, 10:12 am, Tim Knight <msgtkni...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > This cartridge is a bit long....2 3/4 X 5 3/8 inches. Inside is a > pcboard with one chip and the following lettering on the board: > > AEA > 013 032 > comm 64-1 > > The chip has a white paper label "E 1037" > > Booting my C64 I get the usual top line: > > 64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE > > With the cartridge inserted, 38911 changes to 30719 > > There are no labels on the case......only the following is scratched > into the cover: > > OK 492-38-XXXX. This may be a Social Security Number from the State > of Missouri so I did not include the last 4 digits. > > Any ideas? > > CT
From: Mr. X on 16 Feb 2010 01:16 "Tim Knight" <msgtknight(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:5603fa80-1dc1-49c6-9bf2-0072e879c0a2(a)g19g2000yqe.googlegroups.com... > pcboard with one chip and the following lettering on the board: > 64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE > > With the cartridge inserted, 38911 changes to 30719 So it takes 8K from the BASIC area but leaves BASIC running? I'd guess it's either a BASIC expander / DOS wedge utility since it doesn't take over BASIC. It's very likely an 8K ROM at $8000-$9FFF aka #32768. There's more info about carts at: http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Cartridge cart dump utilities http://markus.brenner.de/cartridge/ Or you could write a small BASIC program to PEEK out the info, POKE it to the screen or write it to disk. X
From: J.B. Wood on 16 Feb 2010 06:42 On 2/15/2010 10:26 AM, polishedball wrote: > > I beliebe AEA only made these carts > AEA-SOFT > Com Packratt > Com Fax > Doctor QSO > MBA-TOR > Morse University > > Have no idea what it might be though. > > > > On Feb 15, 10:12 am, Tim Knight<msgtkni...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> This cartridge is a bit long....2 3/4 X 5 3/8 inches. Inside is a >> pcboard with one chip and the following lettering on the board: >> >> AEA >> 013 032 >> comm 64-1 >> >> The chip has a white paper label "E 1037" >> >> Booting my C64 I get the usual top line: >> >> 64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE >> >> With the cartridge inserted, 38911 changes to 30719 >> >> There are no labels on the case......only the following is scratched >> into the cover: >> >> OK 492-38-XXXX. This may be a Social Security Number from the State >> of Missouri so I did not include the last 4 digits. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> CT > Hello, and AEA offered a number of ham radio apps as named above. I've got the Morse University (MU cart stashed away somewhere. Since your cart (as is the MU cart) is ostensibly not autostart see if you can either SYS 32768 or, using an ML monitor, find the cold/warm start address for the cart. By examining $8000-$A000 you might also find some ASCII characters with mfr, app name, etc. Sincerely, -- John Wood (Code 5520) e-mail: wood(a)itd.nrl.navy.mil Naval Research Laboratory 4555 Overlook Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20375-5337
From: Tim Knight on 16 Feb 2010 07:48
On Feb 16, 6:42 am, "J.B. Wood" <john.w...(a)nrl.navy.mil> wrote: > On 2/15/2010 10:26 AM, polishedball wrote: > > > > > > > I beliebe AEA only made these carts > > AEA-SOFT > > Com Packratt > > Com Fax > > Doctor QSO > > MBA-TOR > > Morse University > > > Have no idea what it might be though. > > > On Feb 15, 10:12 am, Tim Knight<msgtkni...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> This cartridge is a bit long....2 3/4 X 5 3/8 inches. Inside is a > >> pcboard with one chip and the following lettering on the board: > > >> AEA > >> 013 032 > >> comm 64-1 > > >> The chip has a white paper label "E 1037" > > >> Booting my C64 I get the usual top line: > > >> 64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE > > >> With the cartridge inserted, 38911 changes to 30719 > > >> There are no labels on the case......only the following is scratched > >> into the cover: > > >> OK 492-38-XXXX. This may be a Social Security Number from the State > >> of Missouri so I did not include the last 4 digits. > > >> Any ideas? > > >> CT > > Hello, and AEA offered a number of ham radio apps as named above. I've > got the Morse University (MU cart stashed away somewhere. Since your > cart (as is the MU cart) is ostensibly not autostart see if you can > either SYS 32768 or, using an ML monitor, find the cold/warm start > address for the cart. By examining $8000-$A000 you might also find some > ASCII characters with mfr, app name, etc. Sincerely, > > -- > John Wood (Code 5520) e-mail: w...(a)itd.nrl.navy.mil > > Naval Research Laboratory > 4555 Overlook Avenue, SW > Washington, DC 20375-5337- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Hello John (and you are up early) SYS 32768 <enter> produces this menu: MBA TEXT TM 08.FEB.84 COPTRIGHT 1983 BY AEA SELECT; M. MORSE A. ASCII R. RTTY C. COMMAND MENU O. OPTIONS B. BACK TO BASIC I can see after browsing through the Command Menu, that I am going to need a handbook to make this operate properly. Thanks to all of you for your help....... CT |