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Change to S.A. Audio board Coin Counters

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	If you are never involved with coin handling or do not intend
to use the Stand-alone Audio Board, you can stop reading now.
	I just changed SACOIN.MAC per a request from the XYBOTS/ROBOX/CATACOMBS
crew. The old version counted coins in the first two coin slots on the left
counter and coins in the last two slots on the right counter. It seems that
X/R/C only uses two mechs, and they are the first two, and Ireland wants two
independant counters (regardless of how silly this is for a "Gauntlet type"
game which dedicates each mech to a player position). Anyway, the new version
puts the EVEN mechs (0 and 2) on the Left and the ODD mechs (1 and 3) on the
Right. If you, like most, have just been shorting the counter-drivers together
and driving one physical counter, there is no change. If you care, and deeply
resent the change, please let me (and your audio person) know. Otherwise this
will become the latest in a series of "universal standards".
					Mike
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Sep 01, 1987