G'day folks,
At Paul's suggestion, I concatenated T7 with U7 (LO with UO) and P7 with
R7 (LE with UE) on 2532s and put the EPROMs back into the Star Castle
motherboard (Rev H or Rev K unmodifed). It worked!! And just for the
hell of it, I combined the two halves of the 2532 in reverse order, and
that worked, too, though I had to switch from using the sockets I had
just used to the two sockets that were empty.
So summarizing, you can combine T7 with U7 and P7 with R7 where you
can combine the halves any way you want just as long as you do both
pairs of halves in the same order. Then you can just slap them in
two sockets (like T7 and P7) and if this doesn't work then you know
that you should use the other two sockets (U7 and R7) instead. One
set of sockets or the other must work!
Some advantages to this is that if you wanted to copy 2716s, you had
to find some that were fast enough. (About 80% of 2716s will not work
in a Cinematronics board.) However, 2732s and 2532s are always fast
enough. Now instead of putting double copies of each 2716 into 2732s,
you can combine the four 2716s into two 2532s saving yourself two
EPROMs. Also, two new kits come to mind where either you use two
2564s (you can find two on Zaxxon) instead of four 2732s, OR you
could figure out a way to use four 2532s where only one pair of
sockets are active depending on a switch's setting. Finally, I
tried the exact same things using 2732s instead of 2532s, and no
mattter what order I put the halves in or what pairs of sockets
I used, I couldn't get anything to work. I shouldn't be surprised
since Paul didn't say to use 2732s, but I wanted to give it a try.
By the way, I remembered that the Warrior data I have from Al only
works with two 2532s on a Vectorbeam board....doesn't this sound
alot like what I just did with Star Castle data on a Cinematronics
board? So next time I try out things, I'm going to split the
Warrior data up among some 2716s and plug it into a Star Castle
motherboard! If this works, then this will be the first time
we've got pre-Rip Off data to work in a post-Rip Off motherboard
(though I have to say that Ray is considering trying to get Space
Wars going on his Armor Attack motherboard).
So here's my paragraph on status. Did you pick up that equipment that
I left at my grandparents, Paul? I'm still trying to throw together
those questions I'm suppose to get to you, Paul. Ray, have you had
any success with upgrading your SC Rev K motherboard to run Armor
Attack? Lastly, Kurt, I got all the sound boards up and going, so]
now I only have to clean up some of the messier/static sounds. Did
I cover everybody??
Steve Ozdemir
