[Coco] really dumb cartridge question
Robert Hermanek
rhermanek at centurytel.net
Wed Oct 26 17:38:32 EDT 2016
So I have an old game cart here that my kids liked to play. Eventually
the little circuit board inside broke free of its mounts and the play
was over. I opened it up today and saw that oh, I could probably just
superglue the mounting posts and put it back together. So I glued.
But I forgot to look before I removed the screws from the circuit
board: which way was it mounted in there, or more simply, which way is
up? All these game carts are is a little board with a round "bump" on
one side that no doubt contains whatever ROM gizmo is required. The
37/38 pins are marked on the board, but I don't know if these correspond
to whatever numbering was used on coco side. So, imagine me putting this
thing back in the cart and plugging it in: my two options are:
a) Mount the board with the "bump" on top of board facing top of cart
case, meaning their labelled pins 37/38 would be toward the front of the
coco
b) Mount the board with the "bump" underneath, so facing the desk my
coco is on, meaning their labelled pins 37/38 would be toward the back
of the coco
Obviously option c) would have been look at the dumb thing before you
take it apart.
Thanks
-RobertH
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