Re: So I was talking to a co-worker today...

In a message dated 11/19/98 11:14:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
wsharp@macromedia.com writes:

<< ...who worked for Bally around 1982. He worked on two VECTOR games that
 Bally never released. One was called Firefly and they had 8 prototype
 units on display in the Chicago area. He can't remember the name of the
 other game (he's going to try and find some notes at home) but he said they
 only made 2 of the second game and it never made it out of development.
 Just as they were going to release them the industry died and they never
 made it to production. >>

     I know nothing of these, but the firefly game souds pretty interesting.
Do you know if they were running the G08?
     I'm thinking this was a possibility since :
#1: Atari had much of the color vector production of WG tied up with it's
games, and one of the reasons that the Amplifone was made is because WG
couldn't keep up with Atari's demand.
#2: Omega race used a G05.

     I'm putting a bit of a history section to Mark's G08 faq. I got the
information from Don Mahler who worked at Sega/Gremlin between 1981-1983, and
helped design the Vector timing and control boards in the G-80 boardsets. I
should be done adding the history section in about a week, but I just wanted
to see if anybody would actually be interested in it. I'm thinking Mark is
making the faq to help in the repair of G08 flamethrowers...uh, I mean
monitors, and maybe that is all that should be in the thing. I don't want to
waste a bunch of space in the faq with ramblings about the design unless those
reading it have some interest. What is your opinion?

Thanks,
Michael Kelley
Received on Thu Nov 19 23:18:33 1998