Hi All, The BoosterPak arrived today. Play time!
I have hooked it up to an M100 and can get it to re-initialise the disk and boot to the main menu. The Asteroids game seems to fail with a syntax error in Basic when following the instructions. I haven’t tested much further than that yet. The BoosterPak is filled with RAM chips with all of the RAM/ROM jumpers replaced with hard wired links and no option ROM sockets. This appears to be how it left the factory. This means for me to use any of the sockets as ROM instead of RAM, I am going to have to start de-soldering links etc. The BoosterPak ROM version is v1.23 and I can copy it if we don’t already have a copy of that version on the site. The BoosterPak and X-Tel/Asteroids ROMs were missing their covers over the EPROM windows so hopefully they are not corrupted. Some questions… When I power off the M100 and power it back on, I have to perform a hard reset and re-initialise the disk. I am assuming that this is due to the 3v Lithium backup battery having long left this realm. Safe assumption? Does anyone have any recommendations for what to replace the 3v lithium cell in the BoosterPak with? I was thinking of putting a 2xAA holder inside the case and either using a couple of AA Alkalines (preferably) or Lithiums. The main board says ‘Purple Computing’. I thought it was travelling Software that made the BoosterPak? Cheers, Gary
