Brett,
The card you mention is a software/firmware updating tool for both RFM and SWE1 to update the rom set (including sound) directly in the computer case.
The Prism board is one of the 2 critical device cards that both Pin2000 machines needs to operate housed on the motherboard PCI slot within PC, that is, the prism board and rom boards are sandwitched together form one part (and if you check on ebay the prices for the Prism alone is very expensive and the same for a populated rom board, not so for the rom board without the roms on it). The 'PUB' Card plugs into it and updates the roms directly. To be perfectly honest, I havent done any software updates using the PUB card and haven't needed to this way.
If you want or need to update the software the alternative is to use the Pinball 2000 Update software connected through comm1 of the pinball machine, the DB9 pin serial connector to the left inside the coin door opening via a PC or Laptop with a bona-fidey DB9 serial port only and Nul cable, USB converters dont work so you need a reasonably old PC/Laptop with a proper DB9 serial port (becoming a dead set rarity now as everything is US bloody B). The process can also be a little tricky to do and is explained in the Marvin pinball bible here
http://www.pinrepair.com/pin2000/index.htm.
I have done this twice already but thats it, no more updates now or never :{
You will also need the files to upload from your PC running the Updater software to your Pin2000 machine. Check for these on-line
http://www.pinball.com/tech/pin2000/software.htmlApparently the PUB card is a handy device to have but how often do or will you actually need it?
For RFM the current software/firmware is offically 1.5 and unoffically 1.6 because its not easily available on-line.
To identify your version of running software go into the diagnostic menu using the door switches, select Utilities and then System Information. The running version will be shown here. You will not need to open the PC case or fiddle with the guts if you go the Pinball20000 Updater software update program.
On RFM anything lower than version 1.5, then look to update it.
For curiosity sake, has anybody on this forum updated their software using the PUB card that can clarify the method?
regards,
Cliff
