RE: more info on euro star castle boards

G'day folks,

I was contacted about three years ago by someone in Italy who has a
Stellar Castle board set that was suppose to be a Star Castle copy. He
tried to send me a copy of the EPROMs, but I think they were corrupted
during reading or in transit since the images were several bytes shy of
the 2048 bytes that I'd expect. Can't say that I've heard of Space
Fortress except for in KLOV...and I'd trust that database as far as I
can throw it! To hear that Space Fortress is a Star Castle copy makes
perfect sense to me.

Is Al serious about his Cinematronics to Asteroids monitor converter?
If so, I hadn't realized how much progress had been made while I was on
sabatical. I think a "Cine to Atari" adapter would open up
Cinematronics game to alot more collectors if a document showed them how
to populate a PCB with a couple of chips to mate the Cinematronics
motherboard to an Atari BW XY cabinet. Of course, the Cinematronics
sound board needs odd voltages so that would have to be considered
too...

                Steven S Ozdemir
                sso@dsc.com

ps - Does anyone want to speculate what Space Pirates was a copy of?
How about Star Hawk??

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>From: aek@goonsquad.spies.com[SMTP:aek@goonsquad.spies.com]
>Sent: Monday, December 01, 1997 3:07 PM
>To: vectorlist@goonsquad.spies.com
>Subject: more info on euro star castle boards
>
>
>here's a bit more info
>
>clay, will you be making any more boards for anything
>in the near future, now that I have a design for a
>cine -> asteroids monitor converter :-)
>
>>the boards are actually star castle, not rip off. do you happen
>I knew that, I hope I didn't give you any other ideas?
>
>>to know what company OpccnMottoeiss is ?=20
>
>
>>one of the board sets was from Elettronolo, who I assume was
>>the Italian company that the manual goes with, but I didn't
>>know who the other company was
>
>Tha manual is the one going with the unmarked (not Elettronolo) PCB.
>It (the unmarked) belonged in a Zaccaria cabinet named Space Fortress,
>fancy artwork on the sides etc. The other one was ripped out of another =
>cab
>(that I didn't see) named Stellar Castle (90% sure about the name - it =
>was
>'stellar' anyhow), unknown brand.
>
>On a sticker on the power PCB for the Zaccaria version (or next to it) it
>said something like 'Special powersupply, only use with Space Fortress =
>and
>Space Pirates'. I tried one of the (the Space Fortress) on an Asteroids
>monitor and it worked like clockwork.
>
>
Received on Mon Dec 1 15:56:47 1997