Re: BZ (was Re: New Vector Games)

Hi Mark,

>Actually, yes. A guy whose name escapes me at the moment, I think it
>was John Keys or Keith or something like that, disassembled BZ for
>another project. He added high score retension....

I do have that mod archived (somewhere), however the zip file didn't include a
disassembly of the ROMs - only a tiny snippet to show the high score
modifications.

Then again, it might be worth my digging those up as his e-mail address is in
there....

>You might try a 16550 if you want to get fancy or a 6850 if you want to
>keep everything obsolete. It'll be simpler and make the transition to
>telegamming (I think I just made a word) much faster.

Putting a UART in to connect a modem was not something I'd thought about until
it was mentioned in here. The 80c152 OTOH is a 8051 family processor with a
built in ethernet transceiver, with only a few external components you can
implement an intelligent ethernet module....as I said, on reflection it's not a
very practical idea as I don't think that many (any?) of us have more than a
single BZ machine at home?

Oh well, looks like I have a project for the New Year....once I get the current
project out of the way.

  TTFN - Pete.

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