Re: BZ (was Re: New Vector Games)

Hi Peter,

> 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.

That's too bad, but I guess it makes sense. However, when faced with
similar issues, I found there are a large number of dism's out
there, many for the 6502; Sean even wrote one for the 6809.

You might do an FTP search on 'dis6502.zip' (if you're stuck w/ DOS).

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

I'm sure he'll help you if he has time. He was down here a few years
ago and a group of us went to dinner. We actually talked about that
very mod for some time.

> >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?

You must be new to this list... ;-)

>
> Oh well, looks like I have a project for the New Year....

Good luck. Let us know when we can download it and play it!

> once I get the current project out of the way.

Which would be...

-Mark

P.S. I just noticed your domain name. You might be closer to
John than most of us. Last I heard, he was on that side
of the pond as well.

>
>
> TTFN - Pete.
>
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Received on Tue Dec 29 08:56:01 1998