+Ksarul Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Merci, mes amis! Thank you, my friends! Is that COB board the one that sits over the Hex-Bus port, Fabrice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+acadiel Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 The cool thing about blobs is that they still had those via's all around... so for hard to dump carts, you simply have to attach jumpers to the via's and to a socket (put into an eprom programmer to read). Easy to figure out which wires are which data/address line by which pin they go to on the expansion bus or bank switch chip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toucan Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 (edited) The blobbed versions of The Attack use a similar board--and those have only been found as loose boards as well. It looks like these boards were being designed as a cost-cutting measure, as that would seriously reduce the required size of each board. The question there is: does the move to blob cost more or less than the standard IC chip? If more, it would negate the savings introduced by the smaller board, if the same, it would reduce costs, and if less, it would reduce costs even more. I find this topic very enlighening, as there hasn't been much said about these boards in the past. Oh, so the blobbed carts are officially COB carts? You know, I have a The Attack proto in a case marked COB. The casing is slightly different from the standard case. I believe it has 4 slits in the bottom and no screw/middle clip. When I got it, the guy (Bill Barneia?) said it was a new cost cutting technology TI was experimenting with. Not sure if I ever took pics of the case. Edited January 29, 2019 by Toucan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Please do take a picture of the case, Toucan. I don't think those cases are documented anywhere else. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toucan Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Please do take a picture of the case, Toucan. I don't think those cases are documented anywhere else. . . 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabrice montupet Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 (edited) Do you have shot a picture of the innards of the cartridge? Edited January 29, 2019 by fabrice montupet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iliketurtles Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 If the other five coded Funware cartridges were released, then we'd have a lot more blobbed cartridges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iliketurtles Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 (edited) On 1/26/2019 at 6:22 AM, fabrice montupet said: and the well known Tigervision one. That one is Miner 2049er because the Espial board had a Reset button on one side of the board, IIRC. Edited July 10, 2019 by iliketurtles 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 56 minutes ago, iliketurtles said: That one is Miner 2049er because the Espial board had a Reset button on one side of the board, IIRC. You just made my day. I missed this whole thread before! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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