Re: Asteroids Rom questions

From: Kurt Mahan <kmahan_at_xmission.com>
Date: Thu Feb 04 1999 - 13:51:09 EST

> In a message dated 2/4/99 1:38:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, jrr@flippers.com
> writes:
>
> << Atari used 2716's interchangably with the Proms. You sould have no
> problem, certainly the Proms were not encrypted in any way.
> Here's a "dumb" question, though...What's a "windowed" Asteroids?
> >>
>
> Excuse my dumbness on this, folks. (Lack of sleep). I meant regular Eproms vs.
> masked proms. I now know that the 2 are interchangeable, and their is no
> encryption. Thanks to everyone for the help.

Not everything is interchangeable though. The mask roms on the cinematronics
boards (at least most of them) had to be read as 2516s (just a few wires
needed to be changed).. Zonn and friends could give a better description
(its been a while since I wired up my adapter..)

Kurt
Received on Thu Feb 4 12:51:15 1999

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