Re: Asteroids speedmod daughtercards

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 11:23, MKDUD@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/23/2005 8:07:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> joemagiera@ameritech.net writes:
> As to the other question you posed on the speed up mod, I have
> one board with some sort of add on board. I asked the list
> about it a couple years ago, if I recall, some people offered
> a guess, but no one could say for sure what it was or what it
> did. We'd have to look it up in the vector list archives.
>
> Alot of the speed mod daughtercards were available through
> distributors like Betson, Atlas, Mondial, Wico, and also through Atari
> for a short time. I have seen several old Play Meters with
> advertisments for Asteroids daughtercards from around 1980.
>
> On a side note (Especially Jess, if you're listening: Gene Steele
> (Playland) supposidly made his own, and sold a bunch of them for about
> 6 months @ $149 each until he got a C&D notice from Atari because
> their "official" one was being released. Unfortunatley, Gene is
> nowhere to be found since retiring...)
>
> I was wondering if anybody might have any schems or installation
> instructions for one of the kits? Does anybody have any info on
> these?? Or, does anybody have one installed that looks like either one
> of these that is working:
>
> http://members.aol.com/mkdud/asteroidsspeeddc/speeddcft.jpg
>
>
> http://members.aol.com/mkdud/asteroidsspeeddc/speeddcbk.jpg
>
> The one on the left is labled "Sonic", the one on the right is an
> official Atari daughtercard, probably missing some of it's IC's.

While I've never seen one, the Atari daughtercard looks like you
pull ICs from the mainboard, plut the daughtercard in, and resocket
the chips you pull from the mainboard....

-- Curt

>
> I would love to get either one of these or both working on one of
> my working Asteroids boards; any help anyone can give would be
> appreciated!!
>
> Thanks Very Much,
> Michael Kelley
>

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