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Posted by Peter on January 17, 2002 at 23:01:02:

In Reply to: Re: No, i ... posted by Ohso on January 17, 2002 at 22:52:19:

Thats what I thought but do you know how, or where I could buy the technology to hook a PCB up so I could download the software code?

: The original PCB's contain rom chips with the software code for the game on them. People use special hookups to read this data and store it in a file on a PC. Voila, a rom-file is born.
: Then MAME reads that info and acts on it the same way the original PCB would, thus emulating the game.
: So MAME takes the place of the hardware, and the ROM file is the actual software code from the rom chips on the board.

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: Thats what I thought but do you know how, or where I could buy the technology to hook a PCB up so I could download the software code? : : : The original PCB's contain rom chips with the software code for the game on them. People use special hookups to read this data and store it in a file on a PC. Voila, a rom-file is born. : : Then MAME reads that info and acts on it the same way the original PCB would, thus emulating the game. : : So MAME takes the place of the hardware, and the ROM file is the actual software code from the rom chips on the board.

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