Re: Something cool I didn't realize about Tempest

I knew that you can set up the machine to work in test mode like that, but I'm pretty sure it won't save high scores. This idea with the stars moving while playing sounds really interesting. Do they continuously move? What does the game look like during this? Sounds like a cool hack to make if it looks good.

Jon

At 01:34 AM 11/30/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>I guess I must've been in the dark this whole time - but I didn't realize
>you could configure the dip switches such that you could start on *any*
>level you wanted up to level 81. Not only that - but you could advance to
>the next level at any time by pushing the player 1 button. One *really*
>trippy thing happened while I was playing - I hit the player 1 button
>while in the middle of a big fight with the flippers. One of the flippers
>hit me at the same time I was starting to advance to the next level -
>which started the stars moving, but my next player came up and I didn't
>advance to the next level. *BUT* - the stars kept moving while I engaged
>in battle. That was the best surprise of my whole evening - seeing moving
>stars on Tempest while fighting.
>
>So - just to ask this one dumb question. Is this something I just didn't
>realize this whole time - or is this something unusual?
>
>Matt
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>PS - Being able to start at the green level is REALLY COOL.
>
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Received on Tue Nov 30 07:35:09 1999