Date   : Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:01:46 +0000
From   : Stephen Hippisley-Cox <s.d.hippisley-cox@...>
Subject: Re: Test Sideways Ram

http://www.swattons.freeserve.co.uk/brian/bbc/

Look under sideways ram, test program...

Paul J wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> My friends machine has a solidisk sideways ram with solidisk dfs. I am
> trying to test the sideways ram, but can not load the utilities disk as
> the disk is shot. The last time I got the menu program to load and run,
> it just locked up.
>  
> Is there a short basic/assembly prog I can type in to test sideways ram,
> write a few bytes to a rom socket and read them back ?
> Found the call to read a byte from ROM, but not write a byte ?
>  
> There are a couple of roms in this machine that do not seem to display
> any header on boot or respond to *HELP command. Is there a short
> basic/assembly prog I can type in to interrogate a rom at a specific
> socket ?
>  
> Regards,
> Paul