Re: Someone auctioning Vortrax SC-01's

> I know that Gorf uses them among others. As does my Hero robot. That
> Votrax is an Achilles heel for the robot. If the chip fails, the robot
> cannot boot. Unfortunately, I speak from first hand experience
> troubleshooting my robot. Once I found the problem, I was elated. Then I
> realized it could get difficult to find a replacement chip. Fortunately,
> the robot and video game gods were smiling down on me that day, as my buddy
> Dan sacrificed the chip from a spare Gorf set to save the day. Thanks, Dan!
> (You're the man!)
>
> Now I'm just paranoid about the chip failing again. If it does, I'll have
> to do a Clay, and build some equivalent. :-) :-)

Or just hack the boot sequence to not check for it anymore. And probably
find the read/write routines and make them just return. (a simpler solution..)

Kurt
Received on Fri Jun 25 10:25:53 1999