Needed: an old dedicated unit and some curiosity

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Needed: an old dedicated unit and some curiosity

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Needed: an old dedicated unit and some curiosity

Say that you have an old dedicated chess computer from the 1990s or earlier and that you want to see a copy of its program. To do this, you need to be able to read the contents of the machine's ROM chip(s) and then run the results through a disassembler.

Here's a general write-up: http://www.nycresistor.com/2012/07/07/s ... ead-a-rom/