{"id":9,"date":"2015-07-08T22:45:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T22:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.junofirst.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2022-02-09T21:43:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T09:43:32","slug":"sega-system-24-disks-and-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.junofirst.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Sega System 24 Disks and Resurrection?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The natural progression for Sega after the popular system 16 and system 18 games, was system 24. Higher resolution graphics meant using a medium res display and needed more memory to store the graphics data. Sega’s solution was to use a cheap medium instead of expensive eproms. Over 8 megabits of data…. Floppy disks! How can it fail. But wait, floppy disks can be easily copied, so Sega continued the usage of their FD1094 security processor.<\/p>\n

Move forward 20 years and arcade collectors have a major pain. FD1094 batteries failing and disks either getting lost, or damaged from overuse.<\/p>\n

A cheap repair\/fix solution is needed.<\/p>\n

Putting together a System 24 USB adapter, modified System 24 bios and a disk server program running on my PC and voil\u00e0, nice fresh disk images can be written using the System 24 hardware itself.<\/p>\n

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Modified Bonanza Bros disk running on a Dynamic Country Club rom board<\/p>\n

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My System 24 Scramble Spirits cabinet buried under stuff<\/p>\n

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The natural progression for Sega after the popular system 16 and system 18 games, was system 24. Higher resolution graphics meant using a medium res display and needed more memory to store the graphics data. Sega’s solution was to use a cheap medium instead of expensive eproms. Over 8 megabits of data…. Floppy disks! How … Continue reading Sega System 24 Disks and Resurrection?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.junofirst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.junofirst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.junofirst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.junofirst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.junofirst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.junofirst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"http:\/\/www.junofirst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.junofirst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.junofirst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.junofirst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}