Re: Black Widow Strangeness

Are the ROMs actually different?

On 10/20/2010 6:09 AM, Kevin Moore wrote:
> Yes I have swapped out the pokeys with new ones. I have tested the
> pokeys in a tempest as well.
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> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Andrew Welburn <andy@andysarcade.net
> <mailto:andy@andysarcade.net>> wrote:
>
> As someone else said, there is only the one Gravitar hardware pcb,
> Atari simply put stickers over the etching when they made Black
> Widow, all BW's are like this.
> Your sound issues in test mode feel Pokey related, have you
> swapped those out?
> --
> Andrew Welburn
> http://www.andys-arcade.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Kevin Moore <mailto:talon.k@gmail.com>
> *To:* vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> <mailto:vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:50 AM
> *Subject:* VECTOR: Black Widow Strangeness
>
> Ok, I have two Black widows.
>
> While the Game play appears to be just fine on my Pat9000
>
> I'm having some oddities in Test mode.
>
> It appears these are either factory mods, or perhaps
> aftermarket. They have stickers covering the Gravitar name on
> the board.
>
> In any case, When I go into Test mode I get one of the
> following actions.
>
> Everything works as intended, self tests passes
> Self test comes up with QP and will not test sound but inputs work
> Self test comes up, no errors, but static sound until a button
> is pressed making a sound in test mode, then all is good.
> Lastly, constant Reset.
>
> In any of the cases, nothing will have been change, just
> toggle into test mode from power up, and if I switch to game
> mode it works fine.
>
> I did have a bad R1 on one board, but that seems to be Rom and
> Ram related.
>
> I was wondering if there we occasional problems with Black
> Widow running on Gravitar Hardware.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>

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Received on Wed Oct 20 11:19:59 2010