[sdiy] six-trak POS, Shooter eprom programmer
Barry Klein
Barry.L.Klein at wdc.com
Mon May 9 20:25:19 CEST 2005
Hi all,
I have been testing my patience with this six trak...
It seems to pass all the diagnostic rom tests.
With the original system rom though it has issues.
The keyboard does not affect the DAC and thus the SH's for the voices remain
static. It has a good midi output though per keypress. Upon power up, the
program led comes on and cannot be disabled - I cannot switch to the
Parameters function for example. The manual tune Select 6 seems to work,
but no audio output during this. The tune mode though has issues, this is
where you hit Select 9, load the default voice settings, and manually tune
voices to middle C. Here the lights flash and the display shows alternating
meaningless numbers.
I have gone through it about as much as I care to. The latches seem to get
strobes and seem to be latching the data presented to them. Just that a key
press does not reset the DAC for example.
I'm not that keen on even using this thing, I took it as a challenge and I
think it has beaten me.
So I paid $50 for it, paid $30 for two voice chips, $30 for other random
msc. CMOS chips and Z80, $50 for diag rom and replacement rubber switch pad
and schematics.... What am I offered for this "challenge"?
Also I picked up a Logical Shooter eprom programmer at a swap meet for $7
but it had no software. Anyone have it?
Barry
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