We are proud to announce that a new, special tool is available to flash the built-in flash in the Tides-Rider. It allows to replace the contents of the megarom slot (slot 3-1) which provides the on-board nextor with driver for the microSD card slot.
You no longer need to remove the flash chip from the socket to put it in a rom programmer when you want to upgrade.
This tool will allow users which have a nextor image with no drivers or an older version of the driver to replace with a newer version with driver. The tool can flash any 128 kbyte image into the selected slot with ascii16 mapper
We would like to mention that the development of this flasher tool has been done entirely in an msx environment, using both msxdos assembler and editor taking advantage of the blitzing speed of the Tides-Rider with native storage, at 20 MHz. We used SOLID assembler/linker, editing files with AKID! No cross-development at all!
UPDATE: From version 0.5, rom_file is introduced without an option flag so you can use auto-completion with TAB in the DOS prompt. Check actual parameters spec in your actual romeo version after downloading
Note that currently this tool only updates the megarom slot in the Tides-Rider, you need another tool to flash the bios/basic or other slots.
Check the current version of the tool, including the downloadable binary command from the repository: