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PAK ROM's for the SuperPAK coreboard for Microbee Premium PC85 & PC85b - ChickenMan - 02-02-2024

Thanks to suzy for making available the SuperPAK coreboard, see discussion on how these ROM files can be made at https://microbeetechnology.com.au/forum/thread-745-post-2523.html#pid2523 and further info on Suzy's page on the SuperPAK coreboard at https://www.suzyj.net/2023/10/a-superpak-coreboard.html

I've finally made a set of working SuperPAK PAK A to PAK M and NET eproms for my Premium base board Microbee, but also provide PAK A and NET for a non-premium base board. Thanks to Cheshire Noir for beta testing then all on a standard PC85, with the few problem games found quickly fixed. PAK N, O & P are empty at the moment and ready for expansion in the future.

PAK 5 brings up the normal PC85 Menu and all options can work from there. A PAK 6 brings up my Games menu to access all the games in the other eproms. Page 1 of the Menu looks like -

   

A little explanation of the Menu, it treats each page separately, so basically 4 sections. Also, the games are not in the eproms in the same order as they are in the menu just to confuse the situation. If you list the Menu you will see, for example,

00018 DATA "Emu Joust",24

where Emu Joust is whats shown in the Menu and the 24 is the PAK number it starts in, which is always C000h. So an OUT 10,PAK Number:USR(49152) starts them all. But if the number is less than 10, like

00020 DATA "Depth Charge",1

then the USR(xxxx) is a different address depending on where it actually starts in the PAK, these are normally the smaller games filling the spare room of an otherwise empty PAK. In the case for Depth Charge above, it starts at D000h, which is 53248 decimal and is in PAK26. So it starts with OUT 10,26:USR(53248). If you wish to change the games or add more you should study the menu to see how its set out. There are 4 pages in the Menu and there are 83 games listed, so these are the games per Page on the menu -

Code:
Menu Page #1           Menu Page #2        Menu Page #3           Menu Page #4

Defender 2             Battleships         Galaxian               Zargon II
Scrambler              Monopoly            Space Invasion         Tank Battle
Scavenger              Dodgem              Mine Drop II           Space Patrol
Robot Man 2            Lazer Blazer        Cubee                  Tandy Invaders
Microspace Invaders II Battle Station      Othello                Meteor Mission
Emu Joust              Android Nim         4D O & X's             Goblin
Target (Colour)        Penetrator          Squadrons              Space Lanes
Depth Charge           Eureka              Robot Man (B&W)        Master Mind (Colour)
Viper                  Grooble Grab        Gridfire               A Mazing Game
Frogman                Centipede Attack    Sub Atomic             Hang Man
Brickball              Survivor            Asteroids Plus         Letter Slide
Kilopede               Star Block          Colditz Adventure      Mugwump Hunt
Leaping Lunar Limmo    Volcano Hunter      Trains                 Target (B&W)
King Tut               Killer Beetles      Flight Simulator       Justle (Joystick)
King Kong              Hoppy               Chilly Willy
Alien Cresta           Ghost Hunter        Tic Tac Toe
Munch!                 Jungle Raiders      Cannibals & Missionaries
Cosmic Fighter         Robot Fire
Galaxy Invasion Plus   Backgammon
Defence Command        Zargon II Chess
Meteor Mission 2       Draughts
Gun Fighter            Cannibal Crabs
Bomber                 Marauder
Out House              Missile War
Donut Dilema           Bounce
Sea Dragon             Grotnk Wars
Page 4 are all small 4k games that fit into the NET eprom and occupies the 14 x 4k spare sections after the first 2 used by Telcom v3.21. One of them, A Mazing Game on option I, it was soon discovered that it was just a small 3k intro to the game and then runs the actual game which is 12k. No room on the NET rom so the game is actually on PAKM in PAK96 position.

In each of the packages below, included not only are the 14 PAK & NET images, but also the Menu as a separate file and the 2 required Basic roms needed for Premium or standard Microbee baseboards. The PAK & NET roms are for 27512/27C512 eproms, the Standard Basic roms for 2764 eproms and the Premium Basic roms for a 27128 (rom a) and 2764 (rom b) eprom. The games list (as above) is included also in the GAMES.TXT file.

If anyone would like some addition particular games or some educational games/files added and having problems making the eproms/menu themselves, just start a post in the Forum and I will see what can be done to add them in. If any of the games are found not to run, again, please let us know via the forum.

So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\ROMs\SuperPAK folder we placed -

SuperPAK_Games_list.txt
SuperPAK_Games_Premium_PC85_set.zip
SuperPAK_Games_Standard_PC85b_set.zip

EDIT: Location of the files have been changed

RE: PAK ROM's for the SuperPAK coreboard for Microbee Premium PC85 & PC85b - ChickenMan - 09-02-2024

On request, I made up PAK N eprom for the SuperPAK that contains some programming programs and a few others. See https://microbeetechnology.com.au/forum/thread-745-post-2586.html#pid2586 for further information.  PAK N now contains -

EDASM
Super Disassembler 3.0
MicroWorld Forth 1.0
Mytek Forth 1.1
MicroWorld Pascal 1c
Bee 'n' Talk
Ozlogo
Typing Tutor

As Microworld Pascal needs one of the roms in the NET position, I sacrificed Target (B&W) to take up the 2nd Pascal rom. So you need to replace the NET rom with this new one.  Also the Menu was updated to include all these new programs, so you need to burn out a new PAK A eprom also.  If your really in a hurry and only burn out PAK N, from Basic PAK 104 will bring up EDASM, PAK 105 for Super Dissembler, etc. but MicroWorld Pascal will not work this way.

In the ZIP file there are new PAK A, PAK N and NET roms for both Premium and Standard baseboards.  I even tried out my BeeTalker which worked great.

   

So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\ROMs\SuperPAK folder we placed -

SuperPAK_PAKN_Programming_set.zip

RE: PAK ROM's for the SuperPAK coreboard for Microbee Premium PC85 & PC85b - ChickenMan - 19-02-2024

I've put together PAK O eprom for the SuperPAK coreboard.  I realized I missed the Mydas Assembler rom in the PAK N so that got me started on this one. Added Mytek Wordprocessor, DataBase 3 and few more games.  All tested and working but refer to the Manuals of the 2 Mytek programs which are also in the Repository. So Menu 4 is now full and only 6 free spots in Menu 3.

If there any further requests for programs in the last PAK P eprom, please let me know via a post in the Forum and I will see what can be done, otherwise I will fill it with some educational programs.

PAK O now contains -

Mydas Assembler
Mytek Word Processor
DataBase 3
Dominoes
Race
Sydney Approach
Pinball
X Word

So Menu 4 is now -

   

and Menu 3 is now -

   

Again, the ZIP file contains PAK O and PAK A (the Menu has been updated) for both Premium and Standard boards as well as the menu for both as a stand alone MWB file as well.

So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\ROMs\SuperPAK folder we placed -

SuperPAK_PAKO_Various_set.zip

RE: PAK ROM's for the SuperPAK coreboard for Microbee Premium PC85 & PC85b - ChickenMan - 25-02-2024

It was time to fill the last spot, so I've put together PAK P eprom for the SuperPAK coreboard. Since there were no further requests and there are already a few scattered Educational programs in the existing PAK's, I agonized what extra Educational programs that can fit into the 8 x 8k positions (PAK P) and the 6 spots free in the Menu, so ended up with -

PAK P now contains -

Lemonade Stall
Sherlock - Find the hidden Words
Grilla Maths
Missing Numbers
Wonderword Generator
Milkshake

As all PAK positions and the NET are now full, as well as the Menu, this is the final list of the 104 programs.

Code:
Menu Page #1           Menu Page #2       Menu Page #3        Menu Page #4
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Defender 2             Battleships        Galaxian            Zargon II
Scrambler              Monopoly           Space Invasion      Tank Battle
Scavenger              Dodgem             Mine Drop II        Space Patrol
Robot Man 2            Lazer Blazer       Cubee               Tandy Invaders
Microspace Invaders II Battle Station     Othello             Meteor Mission
Emu Joust              Android Nim        4D O & X's          Goblin
Target (Colour)        Penetrator         Squadrons           Space Lanes
Depth Charge           Eureka             Robot Man (B&W)     Master Mind (Colour)
Viper                  Grooble Grab       Gridfire            A Mazing Game
Frogman                Centipede Attack   Sub Atomic          Hang Man
Brickball              Survivor           Asteroids Plus      Letter Slide
Kilopede               Star Block         Colditz Adventure   Mugwump Hunt
Leaping Lunar Limmo    Volcano Hunter     Trains              Justle (Joystick)
King Tut               Killer Beetles     Flight Simulator    Race
King Kong              Hoppy              Chilly Willy        Dominoes
Alien Cresta           Ghost Hunter       Tic Tac Toe         Mydas Assembler
Munch!                 Jungle Raiders     Cannibals & Missionaries    EDASM
Cosmic Fighter         Robot Fire         Sydney Approach     Super Dissembler
Galaxy Invasion Plus   Backgammon         Pinball             MicroWorld Forth v1.0
Defence Command        Zargon II Chess    X-Word Generator    Mytek Forth v1.1
Meteor Mission 2       Draughts           Lemonade Stall      MicroWorld Pascal v1c
Gun Fighter            Cannibal Crabs     Sherlock Word Find  Bee'n'Talk
Bomber                 Marauder           Grilla Maths        Ozlogo
Out House              Missile War        Missing Numbers     Typing Tutor
Donut Dilema           Bounce             Wonderword Generator   Mytek Wordprocessor
Sea Dragon             Grotnik Wars       Milkshake           DataBase 3

Please change them to suit your needs, current location of all the programs are in the Menu so are easily located. If they dont start at the beginning of the PAK location, their start address is given within the PAK location also. The programs are NOT in the eproms in the same order as the menu. Just use a Hex Editor on your PC to locate, remove & add as required. I use Cygnus Free Edition or HxD.  If you need any help with adding/subtracting/changing any of the programs, just ask in the Forum.

Again, the ZIP file contains PAK P and PAK A (the Menu has been updated) for both Premium and Standard boards as well as the Menu for both as a stand alone MWB file.

So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\ROMs\SuperPAK folder we placed -

SuperPAK_PAKP_Educational_set.zip

SuperPAK_Games_list.txt <--- updated