Re: Nucleous Cannon

funny you should mention it :)

I have a Stellar Castle (in storage right now), and last night i pulled the
boards out to see if i could hook them up on my test rig (vectrex)..

The stellar castle sound board is not unlike a star castle board, except
that it is an extra 2 inches on it, that hold the DACs for the monitor (i
have a Hantarex vector monitor installed)..

i think they are made by national semicinductor and are marked:
DAC1221LCN
AD7521KN

they then have an LF13331 and two TL082's and a host of 3 adjustment per
channel

i took a photo of the entire sound board.. here:
http://www.thedvdproject.com/warlords/dcp05362.jpg

and a closeup of the DAC section:
http://www.thedvdproject.com/warlords/dcp05370.jpg

the main board is virtually the same as a normal cinemtronics board, except
it doesn't have a green solder mask on the top board, and is of course
labelled 'elettronolo' :)
http://www.thedvdproject.com/warlords/dcp05264.jpg

I've not had chance to test it all, but i was sold the machine as working
with wobbly vectors, and one sound stuck on. The cabinet had the sound board
in it, but was running a normal cinemtronics cpu board, i also got a few
spare cinemat boardsets too :) I need to sit down and try fire them up on my
vectrex rig now i have a DAC interface and see what's wrong with them :)

Andy

> The bootleg Star Castles actually had the Cinematronics monitor DACS and
> circuitry on the game PCB so it would go in a standard B&W vector monitor.
>
> There was talk of someone making this circuit to plug between the
> Cinematronics boards and the Atari monitor. Any progress???
>
> Cheers
> paul
>
> > Andy Welburn wrote:
> >
> > but would you agree that it is a bootleg..? straight copy of the
> > cinematronic version? Does it also have the weird japanese vector
> > monitor in it?
> >
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: George Campbell
> > To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
> > Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 1:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: VECTOR: Nucleous Cannon
> >
> > I have one. It is by Hoei and uses Cinematronics Star Castle
> > roms. I sampled them and they were identical.
> >
> > Andy Welburn wrote:
> >
> > > hi all..
> > >
> > > spotted this on eBay UK.. a bootleg starcastle cocktail
> > > called Nucleous
> > > Cannon :
> > >
> > > http://c
> > > i.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1165312780
> > >
> > > well, i thought it looked interesting :P
> > >
> > > i know of another one in the country too.. still pretty
> > > darn unusual tho :)
> > >
> > > Andy Welburn
> > >
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Received on Sat Jul 14 09:30:02 2001