So I got all of these rom chips? How to plug them

[ussexplorer]

Okay so I got a story for you guys.

 

About a month or so ago I wonder into the local thrift store and find on display a case of Rom chips with hand written lables. Um, okay right of the bat I noticed they was atari game names. So now I picked them up. What can I use to plug them in. Do I just need to order a socketed card for the rom chips? Also correction. Some of these are roms and some are eproms with windows and stickers with at least one with golden pins. Talk about some old stuff.

Also the guy at the thrift store said it came with a adaptor but the guys in the back room chucked that. Go Figure.

 

The following titles is listed.

 

Air-Sea Battle

Baseball (sears)

combat (wtf would this be copied too)

football (atari)

indy 500 (atari)

Kaboom

othello (atari)

pong

freeway chicken (activiation)

code breaker II

ski (activision)

supermath (atari)

yars revenge

stampede (activision)

python race

outlaw (atari)

realsport or super? baseball

super break out (atari)

laser blast (activision)

football (atari)

black jack

space invaders (atari/sears)

E.T. (atari) WTF would somebody copy this? lol

pitfall (activision)

raiders lost ark (atari)

Target fun (sears)

Asteroids (atari)

pac-man (atari)

basket b

st. race (atari)

haunt house (atari)

sword quest earth world

warlords (atari)

ice hockey (activision)

boxing (activision)

? copter bomb shoot

defender (atari)

match

defender (atari)

advent

soccor pele (atrari)

 

 

Well there you have it. 30 year old pirarcy. LOL

 

Later,

 

Josh

[horseboy]

There look to be some unreleased titles in there. This doesn't seem likely to be a piracy thing if there are unreleased games. Nice find!!

[Zwackery]

Well, there are good pirates and bad pirates, and I'm speaking here of aptitude. For example, "copter bomb shoot" could be Super Cobra by Parker Bros. or Chopper Command by Activision. In the course of copying the games, said pirate could have just been a lazy pirate. Supermath could just be a mislabeled Math or one of Atari's other awesome arithmetic-based games.

 

Take a picture of the chips and post them here. The experts will have a look and tell you the best way to proceed.

[ussexplorer]

I wanted to take a picture. But my digi camera was dead for batteries. So as soon as I get some. I'll take a pic. The only other thing that went MIA for 1 month is the guys in structions with it. Just saying how to insert the chip into the cart he mfg for them. AKA the one that got chucked. Besides that. There was no indication of anything. I have yet to see anything proto at all for atari in Idaho as of yet. But who knows. Most of the chips range in all different types from eeprom to rom chips. Like one has AMI stamped in it. Like burned into it. Never saw that before and also some older style with gold contact legs. So I assume whatever the guy could scrounge up.

 

Later,

 

Josh

[ussexplorer]

upon farther inspection. the one that says super math. Suspose to be super man.

 

Josh

 

The only one out of the bunch that is mostly a mistery is Copter bomb shoot. It has a ? mark on it as well. So perhaps the guy didn't know what to label it.

[+Propane13]

I'm curious about Python Race, too.

 

-John

[Shawn]

I'm curious about Python Race, too.

 

-John

 

 

Surround or Tape Worm I bet.

[+batari]

Chances are, a standard 4k board from the AA store would be able to play those. Solder on a ZIF socket so you can swap out the chips easily.

[SINGLE TOOTH]

PIC PIC PIC!!!!

[CPUWIZ]

This auction has what you need.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=270145295498

[ussexplorer]

Thanks, I got (The auction) book marked. I just with I know what the original connector looked like. As stated in the thrift store thread. The guy said the thing came in the set. Roms, notes, and cable to hook up. But that cable part was chucked. So I have no idead if it was a ribbin cable or a cart or what. lol

 

 

later,

 

Josh

[Bruce Tomlin]

There's no cable. That's a cartridge which has been modified to take a regular ROM chip.

 

Except that I have a feeling that it may be a 2532 pinout, which is what Atari normally used for 2600 boards. The AA store board has a 2732 pinout and is designed for the necessary 7404 inverter.

 

Just build it with a ZIF socket (the green thing in the combat cart in that picture) or a regular socket (not the round-pin kind! they are a pain with used ROM chips!) and use a Dremel tool to cut a hole in the right place.

[+batari]

Yes, could be 2532s. I forgot about that. What you should do is peel the label from one of your chips and see if you can read the markings below to see if you're using 2532 or 2732 chips.