What Fozzy writes is only partialy true. Basicaly, this could be used on ANY arcade PCB. The thing missing is signature files for these games.
Now, if you'd built a "general" "Cat-box" (in-circuit tester) that is running on a computer people who have acces to working PCB's can make these signature files in a snap. Remember that a cat box didn't have any mass-storage device. If they would have, they could have created signature files of the full address range of each game. It's strange they didn't hook up an Atari 800 to do something like that...
And yes, I am mostly interested in late 70's, early 80's games...I think most of us are. I am not interested in fixing a HOTD4.
Anyway, the majority of PCB's from that age run on either a 6502 or Z80. So you would just need adapters for those processors.
I am not a hardware desinger, but I think the required hardware to do this is VERY limited. It would not cost the world.
The main thing is someone who is clever enough to write the software for it...
But aside from this all, I think it would be an interesting project. I may be a bit of a dreamer sometimes. I think it's a bit sad that an idea like this gets a "useless" rating right away....especialy on a creative forum like this
