Tempest PROTO ROM images...

Hi all,
  This is verging on lame but I was wondering if anyone had patched together the Alien's
or Vortex ROM images into a set that would work with MAME. The reason I ask is that I have
been talking to Owen Rubin lately and was telling stories about his work on the game that
was supposed to be the first color vector game. After explaining about Clay's multigame
kit for tempest, he wondered if they were available for his MacMAME. He doesn't own a
Tempest cab.
If anyone would be willing to split them for him personally I can give you his email.
(Clay, you may be getting an email from Him as well). :-)

Here is some other info that Owen Related in our conversation....

>Didn't you write Space Duel from the beginning?

Actually, no. the initial project was started by Rick Mahler as a new
version of Asteroids. However, shortly after he started it, he went a
bit berzerk, had a small breakdown, and left Atari. I took over the game
and changed it a lot, eliminated the rocks, added the color and the "3D"
objects. Rick's early work did include the two ships tied together, but
little game play associated with it, and no real control of the ships
with each other. I took the concept along and added a bunch of other
things, like the small little "mines" that keep you from lurking in the
corner, the bonus wave, the stars and fuzz balls, and the burning fuse!
Plus all the sounds. It was about 25 to 30% done when I took it over.

Funny story on it: I moved Space Duel in its "Asteroids" form to be the
FIRST color XY game and worked with the early color XY system. it would
have spinning color asteroids, color explosions, etc. I wrote a bunch
of color macros to add to the B&W XY system already in progress. Then,
Asteroids Deluxe came out and the idea of a color version of Asteroids
was pushed off. Given that, I started reworking the game to its current
state, but it pushed off the game in time. First Person Space Invaders
was being developed in XY, and since it was ahead of me now, the color
system was moved there. Never heard of First Person Space Invaders? The
concept didn't work, and was changed to become Tempest! It still got the
first color system. My audio routines and color vector macros and all!
*SIGH!*
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Received on Thu May 25 18:16:19 2000