RE: Asteroids hack

I like where it says

"Converts a non-income producing game into a WINNER!"

-jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: tom mcclintock [mailto:tomm@mgcap.com]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 3:49 PM
To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Asteroids hack

Well, I do have a _large_ stash of boards, and I figured I needed to do
something with them. Besides, there were some enterprising people who
made a 'mod board' for Lunar Landers back in the day... I tried to see
if I could approach something like that.

Here are a couple of poorly scanned ads from 1980 and 1982 respectively.
I wonder if I could get $650 for mine?

http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/december_1980_stj.pdf
http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/april_1982_stj.pdf

Funny you should mention the Quantum board. That's a story for another
day though. :)

tm

Jenison Mark-QA3578 wrote:
>
> Let me get this straight...you converted a Lunar Lander board to play
Asteroids? Why would you want to do that?? Are you going to now convert
your Quantum board to play Space Duel??? ;-)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tom mcclintock [mailto:tomm@mgcap.com]
> > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 1:50 PM
> > To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
> > Subject: VECTOR: Asteroids hack
> >
> >
> > After watching with much interest in Neil's Asteroids/Asteroids Deluxe
> > hack I got the urge to do something similar. After a few
> > beers and much
> > review of the schematics, I decided to convert my extra Lunar Lander
> > board into an Asteroids. Neil, I guess you worked form the top down
> > using an Asteroids Deluxe board, so this is another approach from the
> > bottom up!
> >
> > Here are some pictures of the board. It only took me a couple of hours
> > to do the wire wrapping. Be forewarned - the image files are big to
> > retain some level of detail!
> >
> > http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/LL1.jpg
> > http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/LL2.jpg
> > http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/LL3.jpg
> > http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/LL4.jpg
> > http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/LL5.jpg
> >
> >
> > Think this might make a good DIY kit?
> > tom
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Received on Mon Apr 30 19:09:45 2001