of course thats my page. still
havnt' corrected the goofy info, nor updated it since creating 3 yrs ago,
like any
good web page owner!
I was told the boards were the same by an Aztarac owner.. seemed to
be good enough info for a sparse page at the time I guess. I've still
never seen an Aztarac so I couldn't tell you the boards are the same..
I have a disk with some more CC pics, if anybody's
interested i'll stick them up somewhere. These are actually good pics,
unlike the page.
Jeff
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Paul Sommers wrote:
> David,
>
> As Cosmic Chasm is being talked about on RGVAC I can across this passage this
> morning that may be useful to you:
>
> The hardware that CC runs on is different than any other
> cinematronics game, and there were no other games
> made using
> this hardware except for Centuri's Aztarac. It looks like
> Cinematronics had big plans for it though, because
> there are
> unpopulated parts of the board that say "control
> panel #1
> trackball," and "control panel #2 trackball." so it
> looks like it
> was made to support a cocktail mode too. It connects
> to the
> game through a gigantic edge connector (top), and a seperate
> connector provides video output to the monitor
> (left). The new
> board was designed for easy conversions also. The
> game ROMs
> are all on a separate card that plugs into the
> botton board, and
> the sound ROM is also on a removable card on the top board (it is visible on
> the right side
> of the board, the connector is blue)
>
> So it may just be a rom swap - but other people here would know better.
>
> The website this is from is: http://idt.net/~mayday19/video/cosmicchasm.html
>
> It'd be cool if you could do a multigame.
>
> Cheers
> MacMan
>
> Fish, David wrote:
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I hope this is on topic, it's vector related so it should fly. I'm
> > looking for a Cosmic Chasm PCB set. It doesn't have to be
> > working but it MUST be complete and not hacked. No burned
> > up traces either. I'm offering a perfectly functional Aztarac
> > boardset right out of my game for one. The odds of getting
> > one off Epay seem unlikely with so many individuals out there
> > with deep pockets. Email me privately if your interested.
> > BTW, I reserve the right to visually inspect the board before
> > I send off mine. Fair enough?
> >
> > Email me at:
> >
> > dfishh@hotmail.com (preferred)
> > or
> > dfish1@mediaone.net (home only)
> >
> > Dave
> >
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