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Flash Savior
Posted by Eric on 26 April 2001, 18:25 GMT

From the depths of France comes yet another interesting idea for the TI-89 and TI-92+: an aptly-named Flash Savior! If you're an astute one, you might guess that this program saves deleted files from your FLASH ROM. Yup. By running this program you can now recover programs that were lost due to erasure or calculator crashes. Perhaps this will help encourage use of the FLASH memory...in any case, a nice achievement by Julien Monville and Thibaut Barthélemy. Thanks to tinews.net for the heads-up.

 


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Re: Flash Savior
Nivek  Account Info
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Just wanted to say first post!!, well this is a cool prog too.

     26 April 2001, 18:56 GMT


Re: Flash Savior
David  Account Info

Doesn't the current AMS software also do that after a crash? Mine's been pretty stable after I stopped playing games on it and it's been so long since it crashed I can't quite remember.

     26 April 2001, 19:36 GMT

Re: Re: Flash Savior
ExtendeD ExtendeD  Account Info

Sometimes the AMS forget to recover archived files after a crash, this program correct this bug.

     26 April 2001, 20:10 GMT


Re: Re: Flash Savior
Nicolas Pourcelot  Account Info
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Did'nt you read TI documentation ? :)
When an archived file is erased, he is infact only marked by suppression, so you may recover all the archived files you deleted since the last garbage collection.
It's also quite explained, but of course in our good old deep french ;)
It must work just like AU3 as well (this "Archive Utility 3"'s option was not included in new AMS 2.0X)
Nicolas

     26 April 2001, 22:58 GMT

Re: Flash Savior
Tim Buckingham  Account Info
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This isn't a new idea. Archive Utility 3.0 had this feature (although it was very buggy). On that note, if anyone still has Archive Utility 2.0 I'd be VERY happy. If you have it, email it to me. I'd love to go back to AMS 1.0 where the teachers can't erase all my memory :)

     26 April 2001, 22:40 GMT

Re: Re: Flash Savior
Nicolas Pourcelot  Account Info
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Have you a TI89 ?
I tried many times to go back to AMS 1.00, but never succesful, even if there was no problem with going back to AMS 1.05 or older... (???)
Maybe with tibreceiver ?
Nevertheless, 2.05 seems to be stable as well. :)

     26 April 2001, 23:01 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Flash Savior
Shaun  Account Info

TIB receiver does not work with AMS versions. HW2 calcs can NOT go back to AMS 1.00, they can only go back to AMS 1.05.

     26 April 2001, 23:50 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Flash Savior
Nicolas Pourcelot  Account Info
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But I have an HW1 calculator ?!?

     29 April 2001, 00:32 GMT

Re: Re: Flash Savior
Kerey Roper  Account Info
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There is also a program like this for 83+ MirageOS called Archive Recover. It's small and works pretty nicely too, although most of the time TIOS recovers archived data after a crash.

     27 April 2001, 02:46 GMT


no mem reset?
joelt  Account Info

How will AMS 1.0 not keep stuff from being erased?

     28 April 2001, 23:11 GMT

Re: Flash Savior
lord_nightrose Account Info

This program (not surprisingly) doesn't work with AMS 2.05. Unfortunately, I somehow lost ALL my memory yesterday when I used TiLP 4.17 to transfer the Euchre game to my calculator. 17 days worth of programming was lost, and that's a LOT of work for me (about 20-30 programs). Needless to say I was displeased that my AMS version was incompatible... but life goes on, I suppose.

     27 April 2001, 00:43 GMT

Re: Re: Flash Savior
Konstantin Beliakov  Account Info
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This prog doesn't work for me. BTW how possibly can you recover deleted files? Or they aren't actually deleted?

     27 April 2001, 02:38 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Flash Savior
Sean Barnes  Account Info
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Flash memory has a limited number of writes. Any given block of memory may only be written to about 100,000 times. In order to keep this from being a problem, systems using Flash store files sequentially. Any deleted file is simply marked as deleted. Once the entire user space is filled, the system will go back and reorganize the flash memory ("garbage collection"). At this point, all deleted files will be removed and the free space will be grouped together. So, if you unmark the file, it can be used again instead of being deleted.

-Sean

     27 April 2001, 03:13 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Flash Savior
CobraA1  Account Info
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More than likely than not, however, you will either wear out or replace your calculator long before you've written to FLASH 100,000 times.

     28 April 2001, 00:51 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Flash Savior
Konstantin Beliakov  Account Info
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Thanks for a brief explanation guys!

     29 April 2001, 18:50 GMT

Re: Re: Flash Savior
Julien MONVILLE

Hi !

Sorry for that :(
Normaly, FlashSavior is supposed to work on all AMS...(I have currently AMS 2.05, and it works fine...)
But FlashSavior is an assembly program, and it's the first public version, so it's surely not bugfree :(

I'm not sure to understand what hapened to you. Could you be more precise ?
In fact, I don't undersand what TiLP can have done in this problem...

In any case, if you haven't performed a garbage collection since the crash (and if your files were in Archive Memory),
DUMP YOUR ROM WITH THE WIZARD OF VTI, and send it to me by e-mail (asm_dev@voonoo.net).
I will try to recover your files anyway, but don't hope to much ;)
(just lord_nightrose, not the others if there are any, I won't have the time for fifty persons)


Thibaut and I will do an update soon, with litle bug correction, and we will make an English readme in tis version :)

have a nice day :)
Julien MONVILLE


P.S.
don't forget that you must launch FlashSavior a first time to make a backup named FlashBak!

     27 April 2001, 09:24 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Flash Savior
Thibaut  Account Info
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Dis donc, tu parle vachement bien l'anglais #eek# (ha merde c'est sur ti-fr ça ;) ).
Ils sont contents ou pas ?

     27 April 2001, 16:38 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Flash Savior
Thibaut  Account Info
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Et tu as vu ?
On a même nos profiles sur ce site !!! Délire :))

     27 April 2001, 16:52 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Flash Savior
762mm  Account Info

hey! english here! i don't know french! pero, puedes hablar en espanol.

     4 May 2001, 02:24 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Flash Savior
no_one_2000

Hey, I'm only in French I! I don't know all that stuff!!!


Mon ordinateur est une sandwich au fromage.

     4 May 2001, 22:11 GMT

Flash Savior doesn't work
Beta

Flash Savior crashes my HW2 AMS v1.05 calc whenever I try to run it...what's wrong?

     28 April 2001, 22:43 GMT


Re: Flash Savior doesn't work
Bioture  Account Info

Get AMS 2.0x and itll work fine. 1.05 dosent use flash rom.

     29 April 2001, 06:00 GMT

Re: Re: Flash Savior doesn't work
Beta

Oh yeah, I forgot about that, probably cause I used to have 2.0x on my old calc (the one that got lost). Thanx!

     29 April 2001, 19:42 GMT


Re: Re: Flash Savior doesn't work
ShivonM  Account Info

Um, I'm pretty sure all the AMS's use the Flash ROM

     30 April 2001, 13:41 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Flash Savior doesn't work
lord_nightrose Account Info
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good point Derek... seeing how all AMS versions are on TI-89s with Flash memory built-in. Of COURSE 1.05 uses Flash.

Doi...

     5 July 2001, 18:20 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Flash Savior
James Mickley  Account Info

Hey great program!! Finally something like this that can work on ams 2.0x. I found a bug though. I have a hw1 2.03 calc and when flashsavior gets to folder main, it crashes. If you need it, I'll send a list of the programs in the main folder. Its not the first file, because I tried moving it.

     4 May 2001, 00:50 GMT

Re: Re: Flash Savior
lord_nightrose Account Info
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I am now replying to the first comment I ever posted, almost 2 years later.

     4 February 2003, 10:32 GMT


Re: Re: Flash Savior
lord_nightrose Account Info
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At least, I think this is the earliest post I ever made... I can't find an earlier one.

     4 February 2003, 10:33 GMT

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