Re: Asteroids Deluxe in an FPGA

Didn't someone mention that it was being worked on? Seems like
it pops up every year or so. (and it wasn't Steve Ozdemir)..

Kurt

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 05:11:31PM -0600, Hendrix, Jeff wrote:
> Someone should do this for cinematronics hardware
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> [mailto:owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Sanders
> Knology
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 4:36 PM
> To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: Asteroids Deluxe in an FPGA
>
>
> Would it ever be conceivable or feasible to make an FPGA-based kit that
> could go in a vector cabinet and drive a real vector monitor? Would a
> micro-based system be simpler?
>
> My desire is to keep as much of the mystique of the games alive and
> there's probably a lot of people with dead vector game cabinets that
> would pay $100 for a kit to bring their cabinet back to life without
> having to deal with twitchy/crusty original game PCB hardware.
>
> Just a thought,
>
> Jeff S.

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