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koolmoecraig:

Hello Everyone,

I recently came into a factory speed-up pack for Q*bert. It has a Gottlieb label on it that reads "Q-Bert Speedup 7/27/83"
I have never seen one of these and I can't find any info on the net. I emailed Warren Davis about it and he was a little unsure if it is FHMC Q*bert or a speed up for the original Q*bert(kinda like pac-man with a speed up chip).

It is basically a sealed(epoxy sealed) black plastic box with 4 ribbon cables coming out of it. Warren said that the bits coming through the cables are most likely scrambled and that it would probably require a special Q*bert board that can descramble in order to read it.
I want to plug it into my Q*bert board, but I have no way to tell which cable goes into which eprom slot.

Is anyone interested or can anyone help me with this?

I have pictures if you would like to see.

Thanks,
Craig

cholin:

Pictures please :) "A picture is worth a thousand words"

koolmoecraig:

point taken

Lilwolf:

You should really check to see if anyone on the mame team would be interested in looking at it.  They are great at not destroying hardware... and they might be able to emulate that module in a qbert driver.  That would be cool.... (of course... I'm not that good to need it yet :)

but considering that in the end... they will probably know how to get it running for you... kill two birds... one stone

RayB:

Why would you want to kill birds?


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