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  • Disassembling the MICRO-POKEer ROM firmware

    Posted on December 31st, 2014 admin No comments

    The MICRO-POKEer is a Multiface-like device for the unexpanded 48K Spectrum, introduced around 1988-1989 by a Hungarian company, Micro-Studio.

    Basically it is useful to cheat games (i.e. poke infinite lives), save snapshots (e.g. save game progress, hack programs, remove copy protections) and save active screen content (e.g. print, game maps).

    MICRO-POKEer capabilities:

    * Freeze programs (NMI button)
    * Load/Save screen content (16384 – 23295, 6.75 KBytes)
    * Load/Save the entire RAM (16384 – 65535, total 48 KBytes)
    * Turbo Load/Save (double speed)
    * Peek/Poke/Jump to memory location
    * Warm reset the Spectrum
    * Hard reset

    I own one device and reverse-engineered it in 2010. Firmware version is 1.6

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