Entex Adventure Vision - rom burning

[masterblaster]

I've had an Entex AdventureVision sitting on a shelf of 'electronic curiosities' for close to a decade now and am interested in tinkering with it.  I don't know if it works and I have no games for it.  I see the 4 ROM's are readily available for download and would appreciate suggestions on what model of chip to use as well as software and a programmer.  It's been 10-15 years since I've dabbled much with electronics but the rust should shake off easily if there are any home brew programmer plans I can build.  Basically looking to get my hands dirty again.  If I do fire the thing up with no game inserted then is it expected to do anything? (to prove core function)

Thanks for any advice.

[gliptitude]

Wow cool!

Here is a page that refers to a "Cartridge Adapter to easily use 2532 ROMs with the system":

www.adventurevision.com/tech.html

It only links to a picture and I don't know what it means.

.. I'd love to have an Adventure Vision but will never pay the thousands of dollars they seem to go for.

[kokovec]

Looking at the pictures one can only guess its a ZIF socket tie-wrapped to a stripped down cart socket.
I've never owned one so I'm not sure if the mirror will spin without a cart.

[masterblaster]

Thanks. So that adapter looks like a regular ZIF socket (readily available cheap) and I should be able to machine the bottom part out of delrin no problem. I'll bet though that I could carefully insert a chip directly into that socket temporarily using the spring tension of the pins, at least to test. Interesting...

[gliptitude]

Cool. Please give us an update if you make any progress. I am really intrigued by the Adventure Vision and I don't think there are any other members here who have one.