Thursday, November 21, 2013

To RAR or not to RAR?

Well, here it is another six months later and I still have no release.  Besides being very busy, I can't get unrar5 to work with unicode/utf8 properly.

Do you guys even give a crap about RAR?   If I could decode all the C++ wrappers in 7zip to just add its unrar to the existing LZMA stuff, I'd try that, but I'm quite bad at following that code for some reason and have never figured it out :(

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Out of the blue...

...I make a post!   Real life has been at 0% idle level lately, but I'm still working on GoodTools and other stuff.  I would release a new version, but there is still a nagging bug in RAR file handling that causes a BSOD and no one likes those.  If I had code to create RAR files i could figure out why my code can't decode some of them, but alas it is closed source.  Still I forge ahead.

I did get time to work on Tandy 1000 emulation in MESS last week.  It is not as well done as I'd like as many of the chips and BIOS ROMs are not dumped 100% correctly.  If you've still got a Tandy 1000 from mid 80s-mid 90s lying around, email me and we can try and get em all dumped properly. Models include things like the HX RX TX SX SL RL, etc etc.. Tandy made lots of variations.

Be back soon!

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Been a while...

Wow.. real life has taken a while to catch up on :(  I've been fighting bugs in RAR and 7z for a while as I convert the GoodTools to Unicode, but I'm almost done.

I've also got a line on a batch of Jap Pico carts, but I've not kept up with Team-Europe in a while and don't want to waste money buying dupes. If someone has a nice single link or site for their scans and dumps, just shoot me a comment.

Finally, I've been trying to help out a school system with some ancient junk. If anyone has driver disks for fiber optic cards made by 'Raylan' from about 1991 for the PC or the MAC, please let me know where to get the image.  Raylan was bought out by AMP in 1993 and completely disappeared. Most valuable part of the company was their domain name rl.com LOL!

More soon (promise!)


Saturday, October 20, 2012

If you want an answer to a comment...

If you want an answer to a comment you have to leave me your email address IN THE COMMENT TEXT.  I don't use Google+ or the other authorization systems like OAUTH.

I see 25 comments right now asking valid questions (not ROM begging) but with 'anonymous' as the contact info. That does not help either of us resolve the issue!

If you want to post a link to unknown ROMS you have found, feel free. I promise I won't let those comments become public