Re: Armor Attack - more questions

Mark,

I reseated the roms and powered up and now the board isn't running at all.

Thinking it was probably the roms or sockets even though they tested okay I
burnt a new set of roms and replaced the sockets - still nothing.

Peter suggested the text might be looked up from a prom, and if all the games
have the same text design that's possible, but I was also missing the overlay
pattern and that is unique to all the games - so I will discount the PROMS.

I have a logic comparitor coming next week so I'll check out the rest of the board.

I might just keep buying Cinematronics boards until I get one that works for
more than 3 minutes and then just send the rest to one of you guys for repairs.

I'll look again on the weekend.

Cheers
Paul

Mark Shostak wrote:
>
> > After I read the roms for my Armor Attack last night, I put them back in the
> > board and powered it up and I now get the demo screen with no text!!!! No
> > score! No copyrights! Just the tanks playing.
>
> <snip>
>
> Sounds like a problem reading your roms; actually, I'm surprised it works at all.
>
> Start with the basics:
>
> - make sure you have the roms in the correct locations
> - reseat the roms one at a time
> - and make sure there are no bent pins under the roms
>
> We know the images are good, so we can always make more if we have to.
>
> FYI, I loaded them and they work just as you described (initially :-).
> I spent about 20 minutes alternating playing one and the other and
> didn't notice any difference in the game play or the sound.
>
> I can't remember enough morse code to tell if the two are the same.
> The first letter is 'C'; had I thought about it, I would have listened for
> the rest of "inematronics", but didn't think of it at the time.
> The (morse) code is very short, so it's probably not all of the letters.
>
> -Mark
>
>
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