Re: [techtoolslist] The Book by Atari - another game board operation book?

pick up virtually any 1970's atari manual and you will get a complete theory
of operation of how the game board worked, this is great when you are first
learning this stuff, they stopped doing this complete theory of operation
for each game by 1980 tho.

Andy Welburn
www.andys-arcade.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Alexander" <marcwolf123@yahoo.com>
To: <techtoolslist@www.flippers.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 6:22 AM
Subject: Re: [techtoolslist] The Book by Atari - another game board
operation book?

>
> Thanks John that's a great document, I haven't seen that one before!
>
> Does anyone know what document(s) there are that cover game board
> theory of operation, etc?
> I vaguely remember another Atari doc that had some great operational
> descriptions about how a game board works, from the CPU, memory, to
> the video output section, motion object control, etc.
> It was a great plain english description about the different subsections
> of an average raster game pcb and what they did.
> Although the one I saw covered one/some Atari games, the same theory
> still applies to pretty much all others...
> I can't remember if it was a seperate Atari doc, or just a brilliant
> tech manual for one of their games.
>
> BTW for some reason I am seeing send/replies to
techtoolslist@www.flippers.com
> (with the www. in it) I assume it's still working ok though.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marc
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Robertson" <jrr@flippers.com>
> To: "techtoolslist" <techtoolslist@flippers.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:33 PM
> Subject: [techtoolslist] The Book by Atari
>
>
> > I've posted this for a day or two:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.flippers.com/TheBook.pdf it's almost 15 megs...too big to keep
up
> > long - I've already had to boost Flippers to 750mb and that's as far as
I
> > want to go for now..
> >
> > John :-#)#
> >
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Received on Tue Sep 30 08:16:28 2003