Re: Unknown board...

If he has the means to dump even just one ROM, use ROMIDENT (available
off of the http://www.spies.com/arcade website). It can identify
something like 3600 different games.

Joe

Bachmann, Joe C wrote:
>
> Have you tried dumping the roms and looking for a name (or clues) in the
> code? This has worked for me in the past.
>
> JB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James R. Twine [mailto:jtwine@jrtwine.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 1:27 PM
> To: Rasterlist@Synthcom.Com
> Subject: RASTER: Unknown board...
>
> Hello all...
>
> As I was going through a part of my PCB collection, I came across an
> unknown board (quite dirty, and a bit damaged) that I would like to identify
> and (try to) repair.
>
> It has no writing on it other than component names/types and the
> text: "EAGLE 6101-A PROGRAM JAPAN MADE IN KOREA" on the corner of the board.
>
> The board has a 18/36 pin card-edge connector on it, 2 8-switch DIP
> switch packages, and has a daughtercard that plugs into the board at a
> 40-pin socket connector (I think it hosts the CPU).
>
> The daughtercard has an additional 10/20 pin card-edge connector on it as
> well as another 8-switch DIP switch package, and a black plastic package
> with no markings on it that looks like it could hold 2 Z-80s stacked on top
> of one another. Some hacking has been done on the main PCB underneath where
> the daughtercard connects (visible in the photo), as well as a few
> routes/jumps made on the underside.
>
> There is a picture of it at http://www.jrtwine.com/jtwine/unkpcb1.png
> (73KB), and another picture of the board with the daughtercard centered over
> it (not the normal position of the daughtercard!) at
> http://www.jrtwine.com/jtwine/unkpcb2.png (76KB). The board has not been
> cleaned yet, and I cannot easily remove the two large white labels (yet).
> There is no visible writing on the white labels, and the stickers on the
> ROMs read "G-4", "G-5", "G-6", "G-7", "G-8", "G-11", "G-12", and "G-13".
>
> I have found a few pinouts for "Eagle" in the 'Net, but none with an
> 18/36 pin connector AND the daughtercard connector. Any thoughts will be
> helpful...
>
> Peace!
>
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Received on Tue Apr 30 08:09:03 2002