• How to dump SS5 using SS5

    From Todd Aiken@taiken@myrealbox.com to comp.emulators.cbm,comp.sys.cbm on Tuesday, July 08, 2003 05:31:38
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    After becoming too impatient waiting for someone to send me a program to
    dump my NTSC Super Snapshot 5 cartridge so that I could use it with VICE
    in NTSC mode, I finally figured out how to dump the cartridge using
    nothing other than the monitor in Super Snapshot itself. Here's how
    simple it was.

    First, I powered up my C128 with SS5 installed, and pressed F8 to disable
    the cartridge. Then while holding down the CTRL key, I hit the snapshot button to start the SS5 monitor.

    I then typed in the following commands:

    *X2
    SS "PART1" 08 8000 C000
    *X6
    SS "PART2" 08 8000 C000
    *X12
    SS "PART3" 08 8000 C000
    *X16
    SS "PART4" 08 8000 C000

    These commands will switch in the appropriate bank of the SS5 ROM to
    memory locations $8000-$BFFF and then save them to disk. I found that I needed to use the "SS" command (Slow Save) to save them, as when I tried
    using just "S", the cartridge will attempt to fastsave them, and crashes
    part way through in the process.

    I then transferred the four files to my PC. I was using 64HDD to save
    them to a DOS partition, so I just copied the four resulting .PRG files
    to diskette and brought them over, but I could have just as easily saved
    them to a real 1541 diskette and used the Star Commander to transfer them
    to PC. After using a hex editor to remove the first two bytes of each
    file to eliminate the starting address and then combining the four files
    into one, the resulting 64K file worked in VICE! Using true drive
    emulation, I can now fastload in NTSC mode!!!

    Many thanks to Tom Cwikia whose Google search showed me how to use the *X command in the monitor.
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