Update on the ROMs
| April 25th, 2008
Tomorrow they will be dumped. Tomorrow night, we should know. We’ll probably need some help analyzing the data, but I’ll post it all here. I can’t say that I will get it all posted by tomorrow night, as I have a dinner engagement at Tommy’s Joynt. But after that, the data that is recovered will come here.
On Tuesday evening, I went to the ACCRC because I had seen a Colecovision there a few weeks back. It was there, but it only had a 2-wire TV connector RF converter. Can’t just plug in the seemingly RCA jack that comes out the back of old game consoles, because it carries sound and video on one plug. You need that silver box with a switch in it. Usually, that box has a coax plug. None of the three I found at the ACCRC did.
So we had to hook it up to a 1960’s era TV. We plug in Venture, which was lying around in the piles of junk there, and nothing happens. Coleco’s dead. Probably the power supply. TV worked fine, though. Got kinda red inside… like, glowing tubes red. Took 1 minute to warm up enough to work. Wire console in the back was loose and I had to pull it up from behind the bezzel and hold it in place while I screwed down the two-wire connectors. It was black and white.
It worked.
Anyway, we ended the night knowing NOTHING more than we started.
So, tomorrow, we know. Sunday, I’d like to go to Laney and look for a Colecovision. I know that hitting the flea market is kinda a solo affair– don’t wanna fight over who saw something first. But perhaps, as a gesture of good faith, we can have a collectors armistice this Sunday. Maybe us local Oakland / San Francisco / East Bay could all meet up somewhere on Sunday morning and hit Laney as one swarm?
If you’re sure it’s the power supply, I think I’ve got a brand new one around here somewhere. I’d be happy to send it your way if you cover the shipping cost.