Re: Question about ROM 03 machines

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <1993May2.041207.25616@osl.or.gov> visitor@ednet1.osl.or.gov (Compass Guest) writes:
>
>>I have a chance to buy a ROM 03 GS from around 1988-1990 era. I understand
>>that when the first ROM 03s were released the ROM was not burnt correctly and
>>had to be replaced. How can I tell if this machine has or does not have the
>>defective ROMs. Is there a revision mark on the chips?
> 
>        I don't know 'bout problems with burning the ROMs, but the ROM 03
>has some -VERY- maddening bugs - like not running half of the FTAs demos.
>I have a ROM 03 (sob). One of the advantages is that thr ROM 03 has a
>keyboard selection in the control panel and the 01 doesn't. The 03
>can do keyboard buffering with it. As far as I know, the 01 can't. :)
>Hope this helps!!

This is totally false.  There are no buggy ROM 3 machines.  And it is not due
to bugs in the ROMs that older FTA demos do not run; it is due to bad
programming practices by the FTA.  (Indeed, everything released under the FTA
name has a ROM 3 compatible version or is already ROM 3 compatible...its the
ACS stuff that gets into trouble).  As for keyboard buffering, it exists on
both machines.  The ROM 3 has Keyboard Mouse built in which the ROM 1 needs a
software addon to do.

Ian "ROM 3 Avengers: We're gonna bomb the crap outta NinjaForce!" Schmidt



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