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October_1998
Re: BZ Mathbox prom part #


From: Jess Askey ( )
Date: Thu Oct 15 1998 - 09:45:15 CDT


David Shoemaker wrote:
>
> I need to burn some of these but I don't know what part to get (also need to
> do some Star Wars MB Proms).
>
> Are they all the same across the games that used them or will I need
> different parts?
>
> Thanks,
> David

Tempest/Battlezone/Red Baron all have the same Mathbox PROM's in them I
believe. I had to rob 4 from a Tempest once to fix a Battlezone. Star
Wars does not use the AM2901 Bit Slice Processors for it's Mathbox so
the PROM's will be completely different. From what I understand you
should replace your Matrix PROM's on Star Wars with ESB versions since
they are backwards compatible with Star Wars but also support a new
instruction or two that ESB uses.
  jess


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