Re: Asteroids Deluxe Versions

Well, as far as I can tell, there are three or four versions. The set I have is from the first version. All of the roms have a -01 printed on them and the pcb has something like -01 written on it by hand. I worked on a third revision board (-03 hand written on the pcb) a couple weeks ago and it had all -02 roms except for two. Location N/P2 had a -01 and location J1 had a -03.

Heres where this all gets a little interesting.. There are a bunch of -02 roms, which would suggest that the rev 2 would have all -02 roms except for the -01 at N/P2. The set readily available on the net doesn't have this combination though. Instead, they have a set with all -01's w/ a -02 at J1. So is this a released set? Or have people been using a butchered set this whole time? Does anyone have an Asteroids Deluxe out there with -02 written on the pcb? What roms do you have?

I am guessing that someone threw a -02 ROM on a first revision board just to make it work and it just happened to make it into the record books as the first revision. Assuming this is correct, I'll throw together a readme.txt describing the three versions I have described. Either way, it won't affect MAME or people fixing their boards since the roms themselves won't change. It will just depend on which roms are used. Jess: I'll send you the updated zip file to put online.

Jon

At 12:29 AM 5/1/2000 -0600, Jess Askey <jess@magenta.com> wrote:
>If anyone comes up with a definite set of different ROM's just let me know and
>forward them to me and I will put them up on the AD page. The orignal ROM
>revisions that I have on GA were from waaaayyyy back when the 'big' ROM archive
>was the 8 meg .tar.gz file in the UK about 6 years ago before this internet
>thing became very popular. Since there were two sets, I simply called them
>version 1 and 2. But, because I don't own an AD, they may 'not truly be what
>they are'.
> jess

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