RE: G-80 Multigame...

From: David Shoemaker (RhoTech) <a-dashoe_at_microsoft.com>
Date: Mon May 05 1997 - 17:34:21 EDT

> >Ok, I'm not *trying* to be clueless here, so bear with me. :-)
> >
> >What else, if anything, does one need in addition to the above board
> to
> >play the above games? Is the board you are developing new hardware
> that
> >runs the original code, or is it an add on board that you use in
> >conjunction with at least one original set of game boards?
>
> Basically you'll want a complete G-80 game. (Could be Star Trek,
> Space,
> Fury, whatever.)
>
> The current plan (there's getting to be a lot of permutations
> depending on
> what we can pull off) is to make a board that replaces the EPROM board
> in
> the cage. You'll remove the security chip and EPROM on the CPU board,
> remove the EPROM board, and plug in the new board. That will give you
> a
> game that boots as a regular G-80 game, but if you hold down the P1
> and P2
> start buttons it will go to a menu screen that lets you select one of
> the
> games to play. You choose the game and it runs.
>
Just let me know where to send the $. This would be a dream come true.
I have to assume that the Horizontal / Vertical game issue is just a
matter of rotating the monitor or dealing with playing Tac Scan on its
side. Or did I miss something and someone had a more elegant solution?

David
Received on Mon May 5 15:12:48 1997

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