Re: [techtoolslist] Pong

As I recall (it's been a while) the ANT was for when you wanted
to plug into a TV instead of a monitor.

Kurt

> If I remember correctly, John is a crack wiz with Ping boards (Am I
> right? Memory is vague on this one). Figure I'd try something a little
> different in the mean time and look at a couple of non-CPU based boards
> :-) I've got the schems (no manual), so wanted to ask a few general
> questions. I've included the pinout that I have below for reference. I
> believe it to be the correct one.
>
> 1) I'm guessing that I can just drive the board off of +5 and gnd and
> ignore the xformer. Looking at the schems (they are *very* fuzzy in the
> version I'm looking at), that looks to be it. Guess I'm half thinking
> aloud here.
>
> 2) Monitor. I see a composite sync line on the schems, but note
> explicitly documented in the wire diagram. But I'm guessing that you can
> just pick a color (or tie all three together) and just run it into a
> normal monitor.
>
> 3) Antenna? FCC regulation or something? Interesting.
>
> 4) Any other "gotchas"? I was going to start playing around with it
> tonight during MNF. I do have a Pong on hand right now, so I can also
> peek inside. Just much easier to run the thing on my bench.
>
> Pinout
>
> 1 transformer
> 2
> 3
> 4 transformer
> 5
> 6 transformer
> 7
> 8 +5
> 9 +5
> 10 Coin NO
> 11
> 12 Coin NC
> 13
> 14 Paddle 1
> 15 Ant (wtf???)
> 16 Sound
> 17
> 18 Paddle 2
> 19
> 20 Video
> 21
> 22 Gnd
Received on Mon Sep 29 19:07:16 2003