Tech : Atari System 1

[LukeWells]

[ukvac] Tech : Atari System 1
Are atari system 1 rom boards all different (physically ... i.e. any custom chips on them or anthing) or if you had say a marble madness rom board, could it be any system 1 game you want it to be if you swap the roms on it ?

I think there are slapsticks on the romboards, but then you can get around these.

Luke

 

[MarbleMad]

Re: [ukvac] Tech : Atari System 1
In article <000801c0b84a$c671a080$0200a8c0@luke>, Luke Wells
<luke@arcadeuk.com> writes
>Are atari system 1 rom boards all different (physically ... i.e. any custom
>chips on them or anthing) or if you had say a marble madness rom board, could it
>be any system 1 game you want it to be if you swap the roms on it ?
>
>I think there are slapsticks on the romboards, but then you can get around
>these.

There's 2 different types of rom board. I think the LSI type will play
any game.

Note: if you're looking for one board to play all the games get one of
the ones with speech (eg roadrunner roadblaster indiana jones) - if the
game doesn't use speech (eg marblemadness peterpackrat) the speech chip
sockets will be un-populated.

xy-man has slapstick chips.
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