Re: Asteroids ROM readme discrepancies

Asteroids revisions sometimes reversed the order of the GAME ROMs. It has
gotten me once or twice as well, so now I have ALL revisions in my
Asteroids work book and check the board against the revision schematic.
Same ROMs reverse order...late board AIR.

John :-#)#

At 11:29 AM 09/12/2002 -0600, Mark Shostak (DOS) wrote:

>Gang,
>
>I downloaded the Asteroids rom readme file from gamearchive, but the
>information in the document didn't jive with what I found on my board.
>For example, the file shows:
>
>ROM 035145.02 at location J2 with a checksum of 2f84
>
>I pulled:
>ROM 035145.02 out of location E/F2 and read a checksum of 31cc
>
>The readme shows the rom I pulled out as being an 035145-01 in J2.
>
>Unless they're talking about another rev board (mine is -5), it appears
>the board locations may be reversed in the file. IIRC the earlier rev
>boards had completely different locations (not simply reversed).
>
>If someone has a board with original roms (preferably working) handy,
>if you could confirm or deny this being an issue...
>
>At the very least, if you use the rom readme information, be warned there may
>be an issue, until we can update it or dispell the rumor.
>
>-Mark
>
>
>
>
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Received on Mon Dec 9 10:19:20 2002