A little help with an I, Robot machine

[bbatty]

Greetings all -

 

a friend of mine owns an I, Robot machine that I restored years ago while I was an employee of atari coin op. Apparently, one of the proms has decayed and become corrupt according to the machine. Files are no problem, but the tools required are. It's been years since I had access to a simple PROM programmer. Is there anybody in this neighborhood who has access to a programmer that might be able to burn the requisite PROM on my behalf?

 

Thanks for your help.

[MaximRecoil]

Greetings all -

 

a friend of mine owns an I, Robot machine that I restored years ago while I was an employee of atari coin op. Apparently, one of the proms has decayed and become corrupt according to the machine. Files are no problem, but the tools required are. It's been years since I had access to a simple PROM programmer. Is there anybody in this neighborhood who has access to a programmer that might be able to burn the requisite PROM on my behalf?

 

Thanks for your help.

 

http://www.hobbyroms.com/

 

I've had him burn a ROM for my Super Punch-Out machine a few years ago. I'm pretty sure there are people on this forum that have burners too. Another place to check is the KLOV forum; their entire forum is geared toward arcade machines.

 

What did you do at Atari?

[bbatty]

I was a hardware engineer. I worked in the Tgroup designing the electronics - Area51 : Site4 is on a platform I designed.

[MaximRecoil]

I was a hardware engineer. I worked in the Tgroup designing the electronics - Area51 : Site4 is on a platform I designed.

 

That's incredible. You should join the KLOV forums as well; you'd be quite an asset in the "Videogames - Technical - General Repair And Help" section; assuming you have any extra time for that sort of thing, that is.

 

So Area 51: Site 4 was on the "MediaGX" hardware which was PC-based. Wasn't this the first Atari arcade hardware to be PC-based rather than completely custom? I think that's an interesting point in history, when arcade hardware shifted from custom to existing PC and console-based designs.