This is possibly the worst battery damage I have I have also been working on a battery-damaged Amiga 3000 that a friend asked me to look at. Please contact me so we can get them dumped and archived for future use. If you have worked in Engineering in a CNC-related job and have access to any of these Fanuc System P floppy disks or know someone who does, We need help to locate any of the remaining floppy softwares that may be out there in some dark engineering workshop or sitting onĪ shelf in an office somewhere, unused for the last 25 years. I happen to have a few of them hereĪnd they have been archived for use with the emulation.
There are many floppy disks and manuals that were originally made to go with this yellow box of tricks. Here are a few screens of the emulation in action using artwork I created with pics taken of my real PG System. It may get fixed eventually, or this very talented new guy may figure it Optional chip in all PCs and is not actually used in any driver. The PG uses an 8087 and MAME has no examples of it's use since it's an X87 FPU emulation which appears to be completely unused in MAME. Unfortunately there are issues caused by missing/incomplete He kindly helped out with the PG emulation in MAME and it is now mostly working. Tremendous feat of reverse-engineering because the Fanuc CNC controllers use a lot of custom ICs and very locked-up specialized technology. He had previously, and with some success, emulated (privately) the Fanuc System 6A CNC controller (which is not in MAME). Over the last couple of weeks I've been working with a very talented guy (outside of the MAME Team) on the Fanuc System P Model G emulation. I think back in 1982 the System P Model G was something like $20k! Most of you probably don't realize,īut that amount was easily made back in the first week of using it -P
Notice (in the last pic) the roughing (green lines) works but the finishing pass (yellow) goes off into space and is generating the sameĬoordinates over and over with E+07 at the end in an infinite loop hahaha! Here are a few screens of the Color PG in action (shown without the clickable artwork for clarity).
The software is clearly having trouble calculating things correctly, but now it creates G-Code which is shown in the last pic :-)
Years experience with FAPT and know how to make it do what I want even if it is physically impossible -) I created a simpler example and falsely adjusted some of the tool data and basically just forced it to work. Unfortunately the previously mentioned buggy MAMEįPU emulation causes some issues and the more complex example shown in pic5 gets stuck when creating the machining paths and won't continue
Some more work has been done on the Fanuc System P Model G driver and now it mostly works. I forgot to add the floppy sounds in the first video so this 2nd video has the floppy loading sounds :-) Hopefully all of those problems go away when the FPU emulation is fixed. So there are still some emulation issues even though it works. Here is a slightly more complex example that also works but the tool crashes through the part after roughing the concave section -) (note it takes about 30 seconds to load the floppy) Here's a quick run through of a demo I created. With a bit of tweaking of the tool data and removal of the finishing pass (only roughing operations work) it will actually complete and the It has similar problems to the other game due to protection. When I dumped Crazy Dou Di Zhu II (Sealy 2006), at about the same time I also dumped an almost identical board for a game called Meng Hong Lou. The only question I have (and one I'm sure many others also have) is how many chips were recovered and which ones (if any) were lost? Update: All known lost chips marked on my Decapping Status Pageīig thanks to 'CAPS0ff' and I hope there are many more successful decaps and dumps in the future. My Decapping Page has re-commenced on the 6th of December 2016.ĭecapping page for updates (look for green items with dates) and you can check the web site of 'CAPS0ff' (the guy doing the decapping) OK so now that the cat has been let out of the bag on a public forum, I can mention that decapping of the chips on The Guru's ROM Dumping Previous News Page The Guru is proudly supported by.