[Coco] I am a dirty coward. Give me courage.

[Juan Castro]

If they're blobs, there's not much else I can do, is there? Oh... dump
them, yeah.

http://aaronwolfe.com/robert.gault/Coco/Unpublished/CART2RAM.html

Yuck. Suggestions on what could I cover that pin with that won't risk
smearing the cart slot with unwanted substances?

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
> Oh yes, absolutely if that is your intention.  I thought you were wanting to experiment with the PCB itself.
>
> On Nov 13, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ...but I'll still be able to put a replacement PCB in, right?
>>
>> (Come on, call the Inquisition now. I... expect it. HAH!)
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
>>> Hey Juan,
>>>
>>> What you are doing is considered sacrilege! :)
>>>
>>> You'll find that once you tear into the cartridge (yes, it takes some force to separate the two halves once the screw is removed), it will likely not have a 24 or 28 pin ROM socket, but a tiny epoxy blob which will make your experimenting a bit more interesting.
>>>
>>> The cartridges that tend to have the 28 pin ROMs are the newer CoCo 3 carts like Shanghai and Thexder.  Before you take a cart apart, pull back the card edge cover at the bottom of the cart and hold it to a strong light, then peek on the inside top of the motherboard.  If you see a tiny black blob, you know it's not the cartridge board with the  PROM, so it's probably best to leave it be.
>>>
>>> On Nov 13, 2012, at 7:20 AM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I bought a bunch of cartridges like this one: http://i.imgur.com/dkWPr.jpg
>>>>
>>>> I want to open them up to maybe play with ROM replacing, but after
>>>> taking off the screw the two halves seem to feel no inclination to
>>>> come apart gently. I don't want to break them. What's the best way to
>>>> do this?
>>>>
>>>> By the way, all of them work and I want to save the ROMs for
>>>> posterity. There's a Space Invaders-like game, an AstroBlaster-like
>>>> game, this one (Bust Out), a simple math game, and a... spreadsheet!
>>>>
>>>> Juan
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