Re: Battlezone Linear Power Supply

As I am in the UK, and my Cabaret is definately Irish, then I guess I
should state this for completeness. Don't know about about my Upright, as
its locked up a few miles away (guess its irish too thou).

Anyway, my *guess* is that Atari used a generic "brick" for any early
vector game as the Monitor/Electronics and Audio would all need broadly
similar requirements, power-wise. Come to think of it, why would they
need to/bother to make game-specific ones if they could help it?

Cheerz - Tim.

"Andy Welburn" <andy@andys-arcade.com>
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i see a pattern forming here..

the larger plug style is found in EVERY battlezone i have ever seen (5
caberets, 7 uprights)...

thing is, i don't ever remember seeind a US battlezone, all of the BZ's
i've
seen were out of the Irish factory..

i thought that was normal for BZ to have the goofy supply.. well now i
know
in the us its like all the other bricks :)

the Irish factory were quite fond of puttign atari stickers o nthe
transformer brick, i've seen that on paperboy and starwars, missile
command
and asteroids in the past.. again, probably were all from Ireland..

the large voltage plug version i normally only associate with battlezone,
but once i found one in a missile command...

the 'L' shaped cutout i see on quite a few bricks, not just BZ's (at least
i
think so)

i think that might answer it..

Andy Welburn
www.andys-arcade.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <jb@joesarcade.com>
To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 4:43 PM
Subject: RE: VECTOR: Battlezone Linear Power Supply

> Neither one is color. Colors have a keying plug at pin 8 and 13
>
> I have seen one of the power supplies with the goofy connector on it
> before. It's probably a molex connector. Most likely from very early in
> the BZ run. Or possibly even some earlier raster or BW game.. Maybe even
> an Atari pinball?
>
> JB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Jones [mailto:tony@tonyjones.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 10:20 AM
> To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: Battlezone Linear Power Supply
>
>
> oll@lineone.net wrote:
>
> > Anyhow to me one looks to be colour vector and the other is black and
> > white...
>
> Which do you think is color?
>
> http://www.tonyjones.com/games/bzpsu.jpg
> http://www.tonyjones.com/games/bzpsu2.jpg
>
> The bzpsu2 is definately B&W, as it came out of the cabaret, though I
> agree
> that it looks like the more modern color style. Both have the same
> xformer
> part# also, and the color XY / bw XY monitors take differing AC inputs
>
>
> Anyhow, it sounds like it's from Battlezone, especially based on Tim's
> post
> Thanks much for everyones help!!! Really appreciated
>
> Tony
>
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