Re: Asteroids add-on board

Al Kossow wrote:
>
> I was digging through my storage locker and came upon a
> Asteroids board that had the switch settings for that
> little add-on board that came up on here a month or so
> ago. It plugs into a DIP socket at C5
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
> 4 increments on
> 5 increments on
> 6 increments on
> 22 seconds on
> 45 seconds on
> 1.5 minutes on
> 3.0 minutes on
>
> now you know as much about it as I do :-)
>
> maybe John R remembers it. sort of sounds like a
> game time limiter.

Nope, I don't recall this one. We did make a few mods to games years ago
that would change the NMI timing to speed up the play , and I recall
hearing about an add-on circuit that would do it automatically, so
perhaps this is what you have. However I have no idea what little board
you are speaking of, so...

John :-#)#

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