Poll Which loader version do you have?

[Wallace]

a7.33 Humax [Orange]
a7.30 Humax [Green]

Humax [Purple] is wrapped up nice and warm ready to pounce into action when called for.

 

[hairy_mutley]

a7.30

 

[HarveyB]

2 x A7.33


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[prpr]

Now confirmed that there are two versions of a7.31
For completeness, here are the dumps:

$ hd a730|grep ^0002000
00020000  00 00 00 1b 3c 64 04 5f  80 01 7f f6 00 00 00 00  |....<d._........|
$ hd a731|grep ^0002000
00020000  00 00 00 1b 3c 62 ec e5  80 01 7f f6 00 00 00 00  |....<b..........|
$ hd a733|grep ^0002000
00020000  00 00 00 1c 3c 64 59 9d  80 01 7f f6 00 00 00 00  |....<dY.........|
$ hd a734|grep ^0002000
00020000  00 00 00 1d 3c 55 72 5c  80 01 7f f6 00 00 00 00  |....<Ur\........|
$ hd a731.alt|grep ^0002000
00020000  00 00 00 1b 3c 62 01 2d  80 00 7f f6 01 c2 00 00  |....<b.-........|

 

[Luke]

Now confirmed that there are two versions of a7.31
For completeness, here are the dumps:

$ hd a730|grep ^0002000
00020000  00 00 00 1b 3c 64 04 5f  80 01 7f f6 00 00 00 00  |....<d._........|
$ hd a731|grep ^0002000
00020000  00 00 00 1b 3c 62 ec e5  80 01 7f f6 00 00 00 00  |....<b..........|
$ hd a733|grep ^0002000
00020000  00 00 00 1c 3c 64 59 9d  80 01 7f f6 00 00 00 00  |....<dY.........|
$ hd a734|grep ^0002000
00020000  00 00 00 1d 3c 55 72 5c  80 01 7f f6 00 00 00 00  |....<Ur\........|
$ hd a731.alt|grep ^0002000
00020000  00 00 00 1b 3c 62 01 2d  80 00 7f f6 01 c2 00 00  |....<b.-........|

Were there any other conclusions on there being two different "versions" of a7.31?

 

[prpr]

This is what I wrote in a private message to SunnysideUK:

Your unknown version is indeed something odd. If I were to guess I'd say it's some sort of interim version between a730 and a731 or it's a731 with a bit of debug code in it. The differences from real a731 are quite small.
One notable one is these curious messages:

@@ -1799,10 +1799,19 @@
 00007060  01 00 63 24 08 00 e0 03  25 10 80 00 05 00 c0 10  |..c$....%.......|
 00007070  25 10 80 00 ff ff c6 24  00 00 45 a0 fd ff c0 14  |%......$..E.....|
 00007080  01 00 42 24 08 00 e0 03  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |..B$............|
-00007090  00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |................|
-000070a0  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |................|
+00007090  00 00 00 00 25 18 80 00  00 00 a2 90 ff ff c6 24  |....%..........$|
+000070a0  00 00 62 a0 01 00 a5 24  fb ff c0 14 01 00 63 24  |..b....$......c$|
+000070b0  08 00 e0 03 25 10 80 00  05 00 c0 10 25 10 80 00  |....%.......%...|
+000070c0  ff ff c6 24 00 00 45 a0  fd ff c0 14 01 00 42 24  |...$..E.......B$|
+000070d0  08 00 e0 03 00 00 00 00  53 68 6d 6f 6f 20 76 61  |........Shmoo va|
+000070e0  6c 75 65 73 20 66 61 69  6c 65 64 20 6d 65 6d 20  |lues failed mem |
+000070f0  74 65 73 74 0d 0a 00 00  42 59 54 45 20 53 4c 49  |test....BYTE SLI|
+00007100  43 45 20 53 68 6d 6f 6f  20 46 61 69 6c 65 64 20  |CE Shmoo Failed |
+00007110  61 74 20 62 79 74 65 20  73 6c 69 63 65 3d 00 00  |at byte slice=..|
+00007120  00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |................|
+00007130  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |................|

which are also present in a730, but not in real a731 or any subsequent loaders.
I wonder how this escaped in to production machines, although I guess it happened on very few as yours is the first/only we know of here.