I don't think I had anything written down --- this was all years ago,
remember. I have managed to dig up this old Getting Started page, with
instructions on reflashing the E3 with Linux:
https://wiki.earth.li/E3_Getting_Started Remember that we were all
interested in running stock Linux on the
On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 08:43:59PM +, Nick Griffin wrote:
> Werid no one ever thought of backing up the firmware before putting
> new firmware on it,what would happen if you didn’t work.
Anyone who uses the ams-delta-install script will have a NAND backup -
there are 6 partitions and it
Werid no one ever thought of backing up the firmware before putting new
firmware on it,what would happen if you didn’t work.
You don’t have anything on the program you made pblq..?
This is the bit I want to get working..
“readflash
Reads data from the NAND flash (very, very
I need help with PBLQ I don’t understand its commands and options what am I as
pose to know how to use it, when there are no instructions on how to use it,
all it has is a read me,please can David Given help me because he made it..??
or anyone who has used it…??
Like “ writeflash ” I don’t
readflash won't work. I'm not kidding about it being slow --- it's only a
few bytes per second. PBL doesn't have a command to read data, so what pblq
does is to tell it to checksum one byte at a time, and it figures out what
the byte is from that. It's strictly a hack.
On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 at
So no way of backing up the Nand then ..?
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
Original message
From: David Given
Date: 07/04/2019 22:22 (GMT+00:00)
To: Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software
Subject: Re: [E3-hacking] Fw: I found Cliff Lawson old website
Hmm, I thought that was documented on the 'getting started' wiki page ---
turns out it's not.
This is part of the turnkey Linux distribution for the E3. You can get it
here: http://the.earth.li/pub/e3/ Get the E3_release_v2.tar.gz file, and
follow the instructions in the README.
Really this
Whats the
ams-delta-install script ..? And where can i get it from.never heard of
it.remember i don't know about the flashing side to the emailer I am not aksing
you to do anything i can do it just need to be pointed in the right direction.
You can use a USB Stick to back it up...? Anyone have
Hi Nick,
>read
> Reads data from RAM into the specified file
>readflash
> Reads data from the NAND flash (very, very slowly)
Is it the distinction between RAM and NAND flash that's confusing you?
Otherwise, they're pretty similar.
> Not beaning funny
I am trying to read the NAND to my PC,but don’t know to to put as the command..?
pblq nand.img
pblq: syntax error: readflash
readflash
Reads data from the NAND flash (very, very slowly)
pblq nand.img
Is the start of the nand 0x something, can you help me or is there a website
Hi Nick,
> Can someone who knows Cliff contact him to ask how the Amstrad Emailer
> deactivates itself or locks its features please…? I don’t see why you
> wouldn’t tell us now the device is obsolete
I expect he's probably divulged everything he can recall after quite a
few contacts over the
I Need your help..?
Can someone who knows Cliff contact him to ask how the Amstrad Emailer
deactivates itself or locks its features please…? I don’t see why you wouldn’t
tell us now the device is obsolete, I did send a message on Twitter but no
reply, that’s probably because he don’t know me, I
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