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On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 9:07:59 PM UTC-5, Gott Lieb? wrote:

On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 6:57:36 PM UTC-5, SeymourGoldfarbJr wrote:

I am hoping this group might have some collective knowledge to help with solid state ball bowlers. Some say these are abominations, but I'm not looking to debate that. I love them and am thankful they were made.

Currently I have a converted bowler which is running the Stern "Stars and Strikes" software. Off this group, I actually found someone who sent me the files for these ROMs.

I just bought another converted bowler. The backglass on this one is "Solid State Bowl" and chips on the CPU are labeled "Monroe Bowl".

Can anyone tell me what the "Monroe Bowl" software is originally from? Was there ever another solid state bowler made aside from "Stars and Strikes"?

I sent the ROM files for "stars and strikes" to a company who makes a replacement CPU. He compared "Monroe Bowl" to "Stars and Strikes" and said they are different programs.

I'm just looking to expand my knowledge of these games, specifically the programs they run, since there obviously is not much published information on them.

Below is the info I wrote down about 1-1/2 years ago for the one I had.

Jim
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The enclosed files are for a solid state ball bowler conversion kit. This particular ball bowler has a plexiglass backglass which is yellow, red, and blue, and is simply called "SOLID STATE BOWLER" with no manufacturer markings.

On each of the original EPROMs, they are marked "Monroe Bowl", are dated 1983, and use factory Stern EPROM stickers. These chips are specifically used in a
Stern M-200 MPU board. It is unknown if a Bally -35 would work for this application.

The EPROMs were dumped on 8/6/2012 and have the following checksums.

U1 - 2c01e
U2 - 26778
U5 - 31104
U6 - 45d66

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Jim

Do you still have the Solid State Bowl Rom images is so would you be kind enough to send to me.

Thank you

Dave. On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 7:32:53 AM UTC-5, Gott Lieb? wrote:

On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 12:04:01 AM UTC-5, seymour-shabow wrote:

Gott Lieb? wrote:

The enclosed files are for a solid state ball bowler conversion kit.

This particular ball bowler has a plexiglass backglass which is

yellow, red, and blue, and is simply called "SOLID STATE BOWLER" with

no manufacturer markings.

On each of the original EPROMs, they are marked "Monroe Bowl", are

dated 1983, and use factory Stern EPROM stickers. These chips are

specifically used in a Stern M-200 MPU board. It is unknown if a

Bally -35 would work for this application.

The EPROMs were dumped on 8/6/2012 and have the following checksums.

U1 - 2c01e U2 - 26778 U5 - 31104 U6 - 45d66

send me the file Jim and I can probably tell something about the

architecture

I sent it and Black Beauty code. LMK if you don't get them, due to the zip extensions.

Jim

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