Re: My Lastest Find

IF CA Extreme happens next year, Scott will only have to bring 1 game... Unless
he comes up with some more cool stuff before then...

Doug Jefferys wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Oct 2000 KEGowland@cs.com wrote:
> >
> > The thing I find most interesting is that it has a coin door. ROM
> > images and schematics would be in order here, I think. Please give us
> > the details and more pix to document this piece of vector history.
>
> Even without schematics, pictures of the circuit boards would be much
> appreciated. My *guess* is that porting to standard BZ is gonna be highly
> non-trivial; a discussion with an ex-Atari source a few years ago revealed
> that the boardset was fairly far removed from the original.
>
> The coin door was part of the plan - looking through my old notes, the
> idea was that the Army would set these up in the recreational areas of
> their bases, and the crews could get training on the cheap.
>
> Another bit of trivia - the controls in Army BZ were indeed inspired by
> the BFV, and found their way into Star Wars and were the basis for all
> their "flight control" sticks.
>
> > Awesome find though!
>
> <AOL>Me too!</AOL> Now, *please* tell us you're close enough to
> California to bring the beast to CA Extreme next year!
>
> Later,
> Doug.
>
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