I wanted to put out an update about my various Psion projects. I’ve been away for a while, thanks to some mental health issues culminating in a career change. It’s only in the last week or so that I’ve felt able to look at projects like this again; projects I enjoy but for which I just didn’t have the mental energy.

UPDATE: The latest version of SIBODUMP has just been released along with binaries for Windows and macOS. Take a look here: https://codeberg.org/thelastpsion/sibo-ssd-dump

SIBODUMP and its partner sketch Dump.ino have slowly developed into a very handy toolkit for SSD ripping. In its current form it’s able to dump blocks from any ASIC5-compatible SSD (so that’s all of them). I’ve also started to get it to pull images in native ASIC4 mode - all but the very earliest SSDs have ASIC4, and being able to talk using ASIC4’s registers could open the doors to even more development.

To go with siboimg, there’s now sibodump! This is a tool of two parts: first an Arduino sketch which talks to the SSD using SIBO-SP, and a C app that controls the sketch over serial and dumps the image to a file. The app runs on Win32 and Win64, Linux and macOS. It should run on *BSD, but I haven’t tested it yet. You’ll also find some binaries for Win32, Win64 and macOS in the repository.