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NLG Classified ads and White Sheet => Requests for PSRs, technical information. => Topic started by: oldgeiser1 on May 19, 2016, 09:24:24 PM
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Picked up some old GK software, base chip is M0000129. Has 19 games, have never seen Wild Ball Keno. The PSR says that a security (privilege) key must be inserted into the mpu to access the Privileged Options Menu, what board is this? The game works fine in the default setting although some of the games are not activated. Tried a 22 key chip for grins but it failed of course. What do I have here and is it rare?
Here's a link to the psr:
http://media.igt.com/support/psrs/M129_G82.pdf (http://media.igt.com/support/psrs/M129_G82.pdf)
Also picked up a 37 slots software set, have never seen it before either.
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The IGT copyright shown on that document is dated 1997, would that be the timeframe when the software was released?
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Show's how observant I am. The security key is what intrigues me.
Southeast MO? From KC, worked for SWBT in Cape for two years 1978-79, nice country.
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yep, this is earthquake country they tell me. I laughed a little when I moved here from Kansas and they told me about it, then I got to reading up on the New Madrid fault and it wasn't so funny afterall. :garfield:
At the end of the psr document it is dated April 21, 1997, but it is a Rev A version so the software probably came out a few months before that. Something else interesting that helps to date it, they give instructions for downloading technical information and instead of a web address to do the downloading they list a phone number, meaning it was a dialup BBS that they were running, so this was pre-internet for them, which got real popular in the mid-to-late 1990's. (just for grins I called the 800 number, it now belongs to ADT home security).
Sorry I'm not knowledgeable enough to help on the question about the security key. But it sounds like the security Privilege key is simply the key that unlocks the mpu board tray for removal from its card cage or compartment. That lock probably has some wires going to a switch that the lock activates. There is an UNLOCKED position and a LOCKED position to the lock. The psr instructions read like you should start with the mpu tray lock in the UNLOCKED position, then press the TEST button and then turn the mpu tray lock key CW to the LOCKED position to access the Privileged menu options. If your machine does not have the lock on the mpu tray then you'd need to install one or rig some way to touch the wires that the mpu tray lock switch would connect.
Maybe there's an old geezer around here somewhere that's done this. :odie: