CUBO CD32 Games..

[AMike]

[QUOTE=jarre;1183051]

Originally Posted by AMike

I've bought years ago a CuboCD32 with a CD of the game Eldorado. Is the game already known or should I upload it to the Zone?

Yes please upload, it's a unknown title...

It's in the zone - but that's "only" a card game - nothing special. It's a game for the "Laser Gate 2" a Cubo version with touchscreen. Here you can find some pics of the machine.
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread....highlight=CUBO

Carlo Santagostino gave me some information of the device but I never found a monitor for the cubo.

Yes, we developed some games that used also a touch screen, if i remember correctly was Laser Quiz and some card games... If you want some other detalis you can find something here : http://www.retrogamingplanet.it/inte...-santagostino/
There was many version of the "CuboCD", for example the latest ones use an Amiga 1200 Board with IDE hd. The cubo you've found is a special version made for simil-slot machines cab. Those cab are half-height and were made to be positioned on wall-table or similar in pubs (bar in Italy), if I remember the name was "video poker" cab...

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by ross

Hi.
Some new HW locations in this game ($800013, $80000B, $80001B, not a simple SW bits read).
There is logic to read input from connected touch screen, and a 'security check'...
All the patching is now only manual and from HDD mode, incomplete and a mess.

Is the "security check" that weird loop that writes bytes to $1b, then reads $13 once and checks if bit 6 is set?

Any ideas how the touch screen is read?

That compiler created assembly is extremely annoying to follow..

[ross]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Is the "security check" that weird loop that writes bytes to $1b, then reads $13 once and checks if bit 6 is set?

Can absolutely be. Not totally sure because after the initial fast view I did not look at it anymore. Maybe this w.e.
I remember that there is a 20ms pause between successive write/read..
Sorry I'm away from home and I have no time..

Any ideas how the touch screen is read?

RS232
All the zen(something).library are the keys.

That compiler created assembly is extremely annoying to follow..

Yes, really awful, what language is it? Some kind of Basic compiler?

Regards,
ross

[Toni Wilen]

Repeated $1b and $13 accesses are done by "zenclock.library", so it probably is RTC read (My guess it is I2C or similar protocol), not some protection.

Photo of the board would be really nice.. (with chip labels clearly visible).

[nikolaos1960]

Originally Posted by jarre

yup, playable, but italian language, follow the keypad functions from winuae, and it will work...

I still can't use mouse or keyboard,or joystick!

[jarre]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Repeated $1b and $13 accesses are done by "zenclock.library", so it probably is RTC read (My guess it is I2C or similar protocol), not some protection.

Photo of the board would be really nice.. (with chip labels clearly visible).

See post from AMike he has a Cubo machine with a touchscreen game, but no touchscreen

[brolly]

Originally Posted by jarre

last night i added the "Ross patch" to some more games, works well

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What does this patch do exactly? Are you able to enter the test menu with it?

Thanks for the Lucky Five upload btw!

[jarre]

Originally Posted by brolly

What does this patch do exactly? Are you able to enter the test menu with it?

Thanks for the Lucky Five upload btw!

Yup, it starts up before the game, change settings or just press Mouse to skip

[brolly]

Originally Posted by AMike

Carlo Santagostino gave me some information of the device but I never found a monitor for the cubo.

Thanks for the El Dorado image, never heard about this one before.

Are you still in touch with Carlo Santagostino? I wonder if he would be able to source images for the missing games like Greyhound Racer or the first Odeon Twister.

[brolly]

Originally Posted by jarre

Yup, of starts up before the game, change settings or juist press Mouse to skip

And you will be uploading those images right?

Is that possible to do for all games?

[jarre]

Originally Posted by brolly

And you will be uploading those images right?

Is that possible to do for all games?

Till now only the ones i mentioned....with the old setup screens...will find a place to upload and let you know....

[rygar]

mega.nz is fast and free

[jarre]

tried it on grandis.nu, but it seems i don't have rights to upload there..

[brolly]

You need to create an uploader account:
http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=780

[jarre]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Repeated $1b and $13 accesses are done by "zenclock.library", so it probably is RTC read (My guess it is I2C or similar protocol), not some protection.

Photo of the board would be really nice.. (with chip labels clearly visible).

here are some pics of AMikes's CUBO 32

http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread....highlight=CUBO

and more info here:

http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=47484

and here:

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/cubo

[jarre]

for all of you who is interested, the CUBO games patched to start with setup and coin patch are stored on the EAB server

ftp://ftp@grandis.nu/~Uploads/jarre/

Have fun with these

[brolly]

Thanks for the upload jarre!

[Toni Wilen]

Unfortunately none of the images show board that contains logic that Odeon uses, at least I can't see any extra touch screen connectors or RTC battery.

Perhaps more advanced extra board was created later?

[AMike]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Unfortunately none of the images show board that contains logic that Odeon uses, at least I can't see any extra touch screen connectors or RTC battery.

Perhaps more advanced extra board was created later?

I'll make more detailed photos of the CUBO.

[ross]

But sure is a RS232 connector.
AMike, find the path where this go.

Cheers,
ross