tjlazer Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 OK I have discovered that I have several brown Atari 800 games (Qix, Basic, Star Raiders) that have two socketted chips inside! 24pin. Most are soldered. I assume these are 2732 4kb each? I was thinking of burning some binary game files to eproms and making my own cart. What kind of Eproms can I use? Can I use larger ones and just duplicate the code like on other systems to make it work? What if I want to use a 16k file? I am sure Nir would be the expert to ask... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 OK I have discovered that I have several brown Atari 800 games (Qix, Basic, Star Raiders) that have two socketted chips inside! 24pin. Most are soldered. I assume these are 2732 4kb each? I was thinking of burning some binary game files to eproms and making my own cart. What kind of Eproms can I use? Can I use larger ones and just duplicate the code like on other systems to make it work? What if I want to use a 16k file? I am sure Nir would be the expert to ask... 978895[/snapback] I've got quite a few carts with soldered ROM chips also. You can't use EPROMs as drop-in replacements for these chips, though, at least not without also adding a hex inverter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdie3 Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 I think that one of the internet vendors would probably sell EPROM boards that you can just put chips into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 I think that one of the internet vendors would probably sell EPROM boards that you can just put chips into. 979331[/snapback] Hmmm... in the 80's my dad converted a cartridge or two for Eprom use. I'll have to see if I can find those. He had to jumper a few wires, etc etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted December 17, 2005 Author Share Posted December 17, 2005 ok I bought some PCB from this site and some 27C128 EPROMS, I tried to burn a 16k file, Kangaroo to it and popped it into the PCB and slammed it into my 800 and no joy. Anything I am missing here? What all binary files can I burn to EPROM? Only 16k? I have lots and most are anywhere from 1k to 64k or so, so I assume I can only use 8k or 18k with this? THanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 ok I bought some PCB from this site and some 27C128 EPROMS, I tried to burn a 16k file, Kangaroo to it and popped it into the PCB and slammed it into my 800 and no joy. Anything I am missing here? What all binary files can I burn to EPROM? Only 16k? I have lots and most are anywhere from 1k to 64k or so, so I assume I can only use 8k or 18k with this? THanks 984425[/snapback] Are you burning a raw cartridge dump binary, or a binary load file (like you would load from DOS) ? Only a cartridge dump will work, and those are usually very standard sizes (8k, 16k, 128k, etc..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted December 19, 2005 Author Share Posted December 19, 2005 ok I bought some PCB from this site and some 27C128 EPROMS, I tried to burn a 16k file, Kangaroo to it and popped it into the PCB and slammed it into my 800 and no joy. Anything I am missing here? What all binary files can I burn to EPROM? Only 16k? I have lots and most are anywhere from 1k to 64k or so, so I assume I can only use 8k or 18k with this? THanks 984425[/snapback] Are you burning a raw cartridge dump binary, or a binary load file (like you would load from DOS) ? Only a cartridge dump will work, and those are usually very standard sizes (8k, 16k, 128k, etc..) 984632[/snapback] Well a DOS binary! Well I have no idea where to find cart dumps! Do you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted December 21, 2005 Author Share Posted December 21, 2005 Well a DOS binary! Well I have no idea where to find cart dumps! Do you? 985485[/snapback] Atarimania has them, it worked thx!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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