diff --git a/src/mame/drivers/mazerbla.c b/src/mame/drivers/mazerbla.c index 8d9bb94a19e..3b9110ec34f 100644 --- a/src/mame/drivers/mazerbla.c +++ b/src/mame/drivers/mazerbla.c @@ -5,8 +5,57 @@ Great Guns by Stern Electronics (c) 1983 Driver by Jarek Burczynski +Added notes by Lord Nightmare 2003.03.19 +Notes: +====== +Mazer blazer consists of four boards in a cage: +ZPU-2000 - main cpu board + - this board has the main cpu on it and four roms (seven sockets for roms, three empty) + - roms in sockets "ROM0"@H1 "ROM1"@H2 "ROM2"@H3 "ROM3"@H4 + - "ROM4"@H5 "ROM5"@H6 "ROM6"@H7 are empty + - roms are marked "MAZER BLAZER // ZPU RA // 1983 STERN" + - 32 dipswitches in 4 banks of 8 + - four 'test button' style switches + - one 4Mhz xtal @A1 + - this same board is shared with cliff hanger (clifhgr.c) + +CFB-1000 - video/subcpu board + - this board has a sub-cpu on it and four roms (six sockets for roms, two empty) + - the roms go in sockets "ROM0"@G8, "ROM2"@K8, "ROM3"@K10, "ROM4"@K11 + - "ROM1"@G6 and "ROM5"@K12 are empty + - roms are marked "MAZER BLAZER // CFB RA // 1983 STERN" + - "shared ram" ?6116? SRAM @G3 + - DIP64 custom framebuffer controller "Video Controller"@E11 + - "Parameter ram" ?6116? SRAM @K13 + - "Frame buffer" 16x ?4116? DRAM @ right edge of pcb + - "Erase PROM" @A16 (UNDUMPED) + - 22.1164Mhz xtal @K14 + - 8 dipswitches in 2 banks of 4, @B5 and @B7 + - LED @B7 + +VSB-2000 - sound/speech/subcpu board + - this board has a sub-cpu on it, a digitalker speech chip, 4 roms (2 dumped, 2 undumped) and 4 PROMs (all dumped) + - Z80 CPU @E6 + - Roms at "ROM0"@D2, "ROM1"@D4 + - MM54104 Digitalker "SPU" @A6 + - Roms at "ROM2"@A2, "ROM3"@A4 (UNDUMPED) + - roms are marked "MAZER BLAZER // VSB RA // 1983 STERN" + - Sound section + - PROMS: 82s123: @B8 @B9; 82s129: @G8 @G9 (all dumped) + +CRF-1001 - RF Filter board for video/audio output + - this same board is shared with cliff hanger (clifhgr.c) + +Versions: +====== +Mazer blazer's zpu-2000 roms are known to exist in at least the following versions: +RA3 +and probably exist in versions RA1 and RA2 as well. +It is currently unknown what versions the two sets correspond to. +The other roms are likely always version RA1, as the RA3-zpu-2000 board has RA1 +roms for all roms except the zpu-2000 board. Issues: ======