Re: ASTEROIDS DELUXE strange problem...

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From: "vernimark" <vernimark@vernimark.com>
To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:15:52 +0100
Subject: VECTOR: ASTEROIDS DELUXE strange problem...

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> Hi all,
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> Yesterday I found an untested ASTEROIDS DELUX board I bought last year, I
> plugged it in my ASTEROIDS cab and.
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> it works, I can play, insert coins (I know coins and starts are swapped, the
> same for left/right) and so on, but I can see a strange problem. The first
> letter of each line is corrupted. For instance "GAME OVER" has part of "G"
> corrupted, with vectors all over the screen. The same happens in test mode,
> in which the first "0" of each line is corrupted in the same way.
>
> Do you have any idea?
>
> I checked the ROMS and all of them are ok. I suppose could be the circuit
> that draw texts but I can't understand where this function is implemented.
>
the vector roms contain the tables to draw the characters,
afaik selftest cant check them either - only the program roms.

that said, it's asteroids - so it's probably the sockets ;)

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Received on Mon Nov 19 09:27:14 2007