Re: Reactor sound board dip settings

I can tell you that my Q*Bert was incredibly touchy about its ground.
I replaced the power connectors (crimped new ones on) and that fixed
the flakiness I was seeing.

Then of course the graphics debug jumper fell off the board and all
my foreground sprites went away. That was fun for a while until I
dug through the schematics and found the jumper mentioned. Doh!

Kurt

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:27:25PM -0500, Tom McClintock wrote:
> My Reactor main board seems to be quite finicky about it's applied
> power. In fact, I'm getting partially garbled background sprites right
> now because of it. I'm guessing all your voltages are ok though ;)
>
>
> tom
>
> Joe wrote:
>
> >Here's where I'm at now..
> >
> >I plugged in a GV-105 (Krull) sound board I had lying around. Worked great
> >(with Kruill sounds of course.) Hmm, odd. So, I went back to the Reactor
> >sound board, nothing. After messing around for some time, burnt new roms.
> >I made 2 sets, Q*Bert and Reactor. Tried the Rerwactor roms, nothing.
> >Tried the Q*Bert roms, it works! Tried the Reactor roms, nothing. Tried
> >Q*Bert again, works. Hmm.. Burnt a new set of Reactor roms, it works.
> >Turns out the ROMS I was using were too slow. Who'd have guessed.
> >
> >So, now I have a working board and working sound board that work together!
> >Then the video craps out. Now all the graphics are fine and the gameplay
> >is fine except that the text is garbled as well as the corner chambers.
> >So, off to trouble shoot that. Any ideas are welcome.
> >
> >JB

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