Re: EPROM erasing, programming

Your programmer should give some indication if you are
successful or not. It should warn if the eproms about
to be burned are blank or not. It should also confirm
that what is in memory was correctly written to chip.

  Once you burn them all, I would unplug the monitor
when first testing them in the machine. I guess this
is less of an issue for the 6100 vs the G08, but
potentially damaging signals could be sent to the
monitor.

  I'm just saying to make sure it plays blind first.

  Kerry

--- Cameron Rector <crector@pacbell.net> wrote:

> At risk of sounding uneducated.............
>
> I am in the preparation stage of programming my
> epoms for my gravitar game and I wanted to ask some
> basic questions.
> Currently I have the programmer working as a stand
> alone and I am working on configuration issues with
> the com ports. (I can fix this, I just have to spend
> time on it)
> I also borrowed a small (5 chip) eprom eraser.
> I have found the new rom images (rev 3). Not sure
> which file goes into which rom, but I think I can
> figure this out. I am guessing the ID on the
> schematic or PCB will give me the answer.
> Now for my questions:
>
> What process should I follow? should I download
> the current roms and try to save whatever is on
> them? Should I just wipe them out and reload them.
> Should I buy a spare set, program them and then swap
> them out?
>
> Is there any chance (not knowing what I am doing)
> that I could damage my roms? I'm not going to plug
> them in backwards or anything, but I could write
> something to them I didn't want too. (I'm learning
> that part)
>
> Should I buy one spare rom just to practice with
> and swap it in and out of my board when I think I
> got it right?
>
> And last, has anyone ever wrote a step by step
> "how to reprogram your eproms" for dummy's?
>
> I am not the one to write code for one of these
> machines however, I feel I should be able to load
> the program into these chips. Maybe my confidence
> comes from my ignorance.
>
> Guidance is greatly appreciated,
> Cameron
>

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Received on Thu Sep 14 17:17:16 2006