Re: list charter

I'd be more than happy to lend Clay all my boards for the G08...they
aren't working right now, (Any color vector tube will work with this I
believe)
but I just ordered a kit from Zanen which I am praying will fix whatever
the hell is up with this thing. If I get it up and running, I'll ship it
at his request. The thought of a Sega multigame is amazing, and having a
direct substitution for a friggin G08 would be a Godsend!!! Take it easy!

Ed

On Tue, 6 May 1997, Zonn wrote:

> At 05:11 PM 5/6/97 -0800, you wrote:
> >>Wire up enough switches and connectors on a control panel to switch between
> >>all the games. Have enough boards laying around to switch in the game I want
> >>to play.
> >[...]
> >>When the security chips are no longer a problem I might bank some things,
> >>but I'll just use a switch, some glue logic (or maybe a PIC ;-), even then
> >>I'll just open the coin box, flip a switch (or seven what do I care how many
> >>switches?), press reset and a walla a new game.
> >
> >*Ewwwwww* Kludge alert! Kludge alert!
> >
> >Just messing w/you Zonn... :-)
> >
> >I always prefer a quick/easy to use multigame. I don't like to play a
> >single game to death, rather I like to play on game "X" for a while then
> >game "Y" then... You get the idea. :-)
> >
> >It's a lot like the SW/ESB kits. ESB isn't the greatest game, BUT when you
> >can flip a switch and play it for an hour or something and then switch back
> >without a problem (or yanking stuff from inside) it's pretty cool.
>
> A "switch"??? Kludge!! One switch, seven switches all in a row? What's
> the diff? (Just messin' a little myself! ;-)
>
> >It's
> >the kind of thing I can leave with Tara's little siblings and not worry
> >about them destroying it-- and it seems to appeal to the more "consumer"
> >level collectors too.
> >
> >I want to do nice, menu driven Sega multigame board for my personal use, so
> >if anyone else likes the idea I'll certainly share the method to do it.
> >(And since my tolerance of wire-wrapping "one of a kinds" has eroded to
> >nil, I'll probably make some sort of plug-in kit printed circuit board to
> >do it. ;-)
> >
> >Like I said earlier, I've been having fun writing Vectrex games for a
> >while, but I want to have some new (better) hardware to play with. I'd
> >really like to get a system working where those of us that like to write
> >games on these old hardware platforms can do so, and be able to give
> >something to an average person and have them plug it in and play a new
> >game.
> >
> >(The G-80 system kinda has me re-thinking the RetroVector platform I was
> >working on -- I could probably make a new CPU/Sound combo board with a
> >G-80 compatible bus interface and get a lot of mileage out of the existing
> >G-80 vector hardware... Especially once programming "ground rules" are
> >established for how to make sure a game runs on a Wells Gardner color
> >monitor without any glitches.)
>
> I knew when I sent the other message that I hadn't worded it right!
>
> Let me make it clear, I'd love to have a menuing system! Count me in when
> it's done! What I'd like is to have maybe a dedicated cabinet or two, and
> then a universal one to play "all the rest" (or is that Professor and Marian
> -- sorry I just want to go home.)
>
> And the ESB/StarWars switch that you and Cliff came up with is cool, I've
> installed a few myself.
>
> No I guess the problem I had with Dave's schedule, is that nothing was to be
> released until your board(s) were done (or maybe just Zektor if I read it
> right), then in the next message from you, you seemed to indicate that in
> order for you to finish work on the boardset, you need to be able to run the
> games on non-standard Sega gear, so you then need to work on getting a Sega
> to WG convertor up and working (Could someone just lend Clay a Go-8?), and
> you'll need to fully understand the Vector generator in order to write the
> menu system.
>
> Then of course there's the time needed to layout the board after you've done
> the schematic capture, or worse, layout the board by hand. And the turn
> around time for the initial board to be made (and any needed revisions).
>
> A lot of work, and it's to be commended! I don't have that kind of time!
>
> And when it's done, man, I'd love to have a copy! I'd *like* a hardware
> platform with serial ports for debugging/hacking code. And given the choice
> between a nice banked menu driven selection system, and a row of switches,
> hell I'll take the menu anyday!
>
> I just didn't see the logic of having to wait for all this to be finished
> before Dave's beautifully hacked code was released to the public, since all
> that nicely hacked code would run just fine on someone's old Star Trek
> boardset in the meantime. Am I missing something?
>
> -Zonn
>
Received on Tue May 6 19:28:11 1997