>and extracted the internal ROM of the SAA-5050 Teletext chip used on Philips P2000T/Acorn System 2/BBC Micro
Holiday present now in source code in time for next official release.
2018-11-13
Replace dump of SAA5050 internal character generator ROM with verified copy from decap. This also matches the Signetics and Mullard SAA5050 datasheet pixel listings. [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip, The Dumping Union]
I wasn't familiar with the system since it was more of a Europe region product, but a former coworker from long ago fondly talked about some of the games of the system. I didn't know if there were any other emulators running these games so I didn't have an answer for him at the time.
There's no chance of that thing being emulated properly until someone traces out the rat's nest of wires and produces a schematic. There's just too much guesswork involved otherwise.
> > and extracted the internal ROM of the SAA-5050 Teletext chip used on Philips > P2000T/Acorn System 2/BBC Micro > > > Now this will be a good holiday present. I wasn't familiar with the system since it > was more of a Europe region product, but a former coworker from long ago fondly > talked about some of the games of the system. I didn't know if there were any other > emulators running these games so I didn't have an answer for him at the time.
The main BBC emulators are B-em and BeebEm, they're dated but are seeing some recent development. For quick gaming in a browser take a look at http://bbcmicro.co.uk/.
MAME has improved a great deal over the past couple of years, but still has a little catching up to do. It's certainly more configurable and supports many more expansion devices than other emulators though.
>> but a former coworker [first name Thomas iirc] from long ago fondly >> talked about some of the games of the system. I didn't know if there were any other >> emulators running these games so I didn't have an answer for him at the time.
>The main BBC emulators are B-em and BeebEm, they're dated but are seeing some recent >development. For quick gaming in a browser take a look at http://bbcmicro.co.uk/
That's a bummer I didn't have links for Thomas way back then around 2004 or maybe it was early 2005. I didn't follow MESS and or computer emulation including DOSBox since I was following MAME much more at the time even though MESS was emulating the stuff MAME was emulating since MESS incorporated MAME code when official releases were out.
His [Thomas] interest was in computers rather than arcade games and his main interests would have been anything related to BBC products instead of Apple/IBM/Commodore products. I wish I had an answer for him back then. The job was a temporary job for me and I didn't see anyone after job was completed. It used to be in a small industrial area, but had been rezoned and houses are now in place in what used to be a former industrial zone.
>MAME has improved a great deal over the past couple of years, but still has a little >catching up to do. It's certainly more configurable and supports many more expansion >devices than other emulators though.
Kudos to your work over past few years. If former coworker [Thomas] caught your work and all this today's emulation progress was back then instead, you'd made his day.
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