Re: screwy Asteroids problem (running in Asteroids Deluxe cabinet)

Hi Scott,

I believe the other Scott is away currently, but he did set up a public
page for his multigame here:

http://www.brasington.org/arcade/adl/

***NOTE*** - this is not yet for sale so you won't find an order form or
price.

tm

Scott Caldwell wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Thanks for the info, but I've been off the list for a while and
> haven't visited Scott's site in some time either (yes, I know it's
> Mr. Brasington, since I own most of his multi-game kits). I
> was thinking I heard something about him taking over this, but
> I wasn't sure, so I didn't say anything. You know what they
> about one opening their mouth and confirming they are a fool...
> :>
>
> I am glad to hear Scott is taking this over, since his kits are
> Grade A and I'll definitely be buying one!
>
> Scott C.
>
> Tom McClintock wrote:
>
>> ???
>>
>> Scott C., have you not seen that Scott B. (who is the same Scott
>> Brasington as below) has an almost finished Lunar
>> Lander/Asteroids/Asteroids deluxe multigame that is in it's last
>> stages of beta testing?
>>
>> tm
>>
>> Scott Caldwell wrote:
>>
>>> Scott, those adaptors like interesting. I'd also like to play
>>> Asteroids in my
>>> AD cabaret cabinet. :)
>>>
>>> I've been holding onto this Asteroids PCB thinking Clay will some day
>>> complete
>>> his promised A/AD/LL multi-game.
>>>
>>> Scott C.
>>>
>>> Scott Brasington wrote:
>>>
>>>> Pins 19 (X) and 16 (Y) control video inversion. There is no
>>>> way to control them via software unless you want to mod the
>>>> board. Asteroids only uses pin 19 to invert *BOTH* X and Y.
>>>> Very early asteroids boards did not have any video inversion support.
>>>> Cocktail is implemented by looping back the P2out signal which is
>>>> tied to the Bank RAMSEL circuit when Player 2 is active.
>>>> DLX upright mirror cabinet will ground pin 19 (X), which has the
>>>> affect of inverting both X and Y when an asteroids board is plugged
>>>> in to a DLX upright mirror cabinet (which leaves it with
>>>> the Y backwards in reference to the mirror). Hope that helps.
>>>>
>>>> FWIW, I ran some proto adapters a few weeks ago that are
>>>> pure plug and play for ast/dlx including video inversion
>>>> circuit, audio amp impedance matching (AR vs. ARI/II), and
>>>> input signals swapped. I have not had anytime to test
>>>> out the audio stuff yet, but the X flip and input swaps
>>>> works fine. I myself have only a DLX cabinet and having
>>>> a plug and play way to change boards will be a great helper.
>>>> Now that I'm back from vacation hopefully I'll have some
>>>> time to catch up on arcade things again. My kids are wearing
>>>> me out, glad they will be returning to school!
>>>>
>>>> -Scott
>>>
>>>
>>
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