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1.0) Conversion FAQ:
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COPYRIGHT 1994
REVISION NUMBER: 1.1
REVISION DATE: 02 November 1994
REVISION HISTORY: 1.1 (02/11/94 - Clarified technical details in {6.4},
Added a few words on manuals in {7.3}
and analog controllers in {8.1.3})
REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (01/11/94 - First public release; FTP only)
CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir
THANX TO: Wayne Aiken, Graham Bisset, Duncan Brown, David Hanes,
To
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/starwarstoesb.txt
Converting a Star Wars to an Empire Strikes Back arcade game.
Version 1.1, Copyright Cliff Koch, 1996
Revision log:
1.0 Original Posting
1.1 Added the data bus wires on the daughterboard netlist (oops).
I. Disclaimer
Doing this conversion requires reasonable soldering skills. Incorrect
wiring could cause damage to the game boards. You do these
modifications
at your own risk. I did my best to be accurate at describing the
conversion, but could have made an
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Street Fighter 2 FAQ
Rank Character Score %age Crushes Crushed by ---------------------------------------------------------------- - 1) Guile 71 59.2 Balrog (10) Sagat/Ryu (3) 2) Sagat 70 58.3 E. Honda (8) Blanka (3) 3) M. Bison 69 57.5 Balrog (8) Guile/Zangief (4) 4) Vega 68 56.7 Dhalsim (9) Guile/E. Honda (4) 5) Ryu 67 55.8 Balrog (9) Sagat (3) 6) Blanka 62 51.7 CL/Dh/Sag (7) Balrog
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/woodcock_tempest_repair.txt
Troubleshooting your Tempest Machine, by Gregg Woodcock
This article is Copyright worldwide 1991, 1995; all rights reserved.
This is a file I have put together which should get you started on
repairing your non-working Atari Tempest game. It lists all the
problems I have seen and lots of information from the various manuals.
Monitor failures are much more common than game board failures (in fact,
I find the game boards to be fairly robust) and that topic is so lengthy
that it is covered in another
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/pinout_help.txt
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Title : Arcade Game Pinouts :
Date : 09-January-2003 :
Source : taken from the Conversion FAQ v1.1 :
by Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir :
and pinout identification by Tim Lindquist :
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/datasheets/65816info.txt
A 65816 Primer
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No republication or redistribution of the following is permitted without
the authors express written consent.
Table of Contents
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i Preface
1.00 Introduction
2.00 New 65816 Instructions
3.00 65816 Native Mode Programming Model
3.01 Native Mode Processor Status Register
3.10 Native Mode Registers
3.11 Accu
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Arcade Game Cheats
--- 720 --- (Contributor: unknown) In the ramp section, levels 8, 9, and 10: holding down the kick and jump buttons simultanously on the lip of the ramp will boost your air. This trick only works when you're going the correct speed (usually your third or fourth jump), and only once (as far as I can tell) per ramp session per level. ----------- Afterburner ----------- (Contributor: Anthony D. Chen) key: S - start button V - vulcan cannon M - missle F - foot sensor (only on sit-down version) stag
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Cinematronics CPU and instruction set.
Version: 1.0 Date: 07/31/97 Author: Zonn Moore E-mail: zonn@concentric.net (as of the above date) Released to the public domain by the author, distribute freely. Revision History: ----------------- Version 0.1, 01/31/97 Initial release. Version 1.0, 07/31/97 Added Color and Intensity descriptions. Added Description of the Coin Counter. Fixed some bugs in the Vector Draw description (I had the registers backwards).
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Typical Failures of Early Williams Games
From: woodcock@crchh75b.bnr.ca (Gregg Woodcock) Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting Subject: Re: Typical Failures of Early Williams Games Date: 22 Feb 1994 23:29:15 GMT richard.l.schieve (rls@cbnewsc.cb.att.com) wrote: > Several people have asked me to repost some of my old articles. > I suspect many have seen the following which was one of my first > "Tech Tips" ;-) Sorry to do this to you again, Rick, but I have added a BUNCH of stuff to your file and would like to "share", too (I c
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/cinemonitorrepair.txt
From: zonn@concentric.net (Zonn Moore)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
Subject: Re: TECH:Cinematronics vectors
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 06:55:00 GMT
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/vidinvrt.txt
VIDEO INVERSION AND YOU!
Using Older Nintendo Monitors in New Conversions
Copyright June 1, 1992 by Randy Fromm
The images you see on any television screen are made from combinations of
red, green and blue; the three "primary colors" of light. By combining
these three primary colors in different combinations, we can make any
color we want. For example, combining any two of the primary colors will
create one of the three "secondary colors." Red and blue combine to make
magenta. Red and green mix to for
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Zilog Z80 CPU Specifications
Zilog Z80 CPU Zilog Z80 CPU Specifications
by Sean Young (syoung@cs.vu.nl)
Last update: September 21, 1997
Opcode Prefixes
There are four different opcode prefixes: CB, DD, ED and FD. If an opcode begins the DD prefix, the IX register is used in stead of the HL register and likewise the FD prefix results in use of the IY register in stead of the HL register. If HL refers to memory address, (e.g. LD A, (HL) ), an offset d is added to the opcode (e.g. LD A, (IX + d) ). If the instruction uses the H or
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Sega G80 Hardware Reference
Version 1.20 25 Oct 1997 Main Processor: Z80 at 3.86712 MHz (vector games) Z80 at 8.00000 MHz (raster games) Sound Processor: 8035 Test button on CPU board asserts NMI 40Hz interrupt from vector timing board There is an 8*8 hardware multiplier on the XY control board Memory Map 0000 - 07FF 2k ROM on CPU board (power on diagnostics) 0800 - BFFF 46k ROM board C800 - CFFF 2k RAM on CPU board D000 - DFFF downloadable RAM on universal sound board E000 - EFFF 4k Vector RAM E000 - E
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Crazy Climber Information
Please note that if anyone does use this info for their own CC emulator project I do ask that credit be given where credit is due. I'm not asking for any money, just to be acknowledged in the emulator credits. It was a LOT of work to crack this:- As for the decryption algorhythm, a few things; There are two sets of ROMS in the tant archive (Brian Peek's mirror). One is supposedly the genuine set, and the other a bootleg. The set I have on my boards seems to be a hybrid between the two. The program
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Army Battlezone (Atari, 1980/1981)
Submitted by Unknown
"Army Battlezone remains a mystery, even to those of us who worked on it." Editor's Notes: I recently had the privilege of discussing Atari history with a member of Atari's development team. This individual worked at Atari for a period of several years, including the "Golden Age", and was a major contributor on many of the classics we've come to know know and love. A note of thanks to him, not just for the information on these pages, but for hours of fun in the arcades.
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Joust to JAMMA conversion
Submitted by Graham Bisset (graham@uki.sinet.slb.com) (c) 1994 Graham Bisset
Your attention is drawn to the following VERY IMPORTANT legal and copyright information :
LEGAL WARNING - READ - VERY IMPORTANT
Although I've made every possible effort to ensure the information contained within this document is precise, it may still be error ridden. However even if is not, you may still damage your equipment, your machines or even yourself by using the information contained herein. I make no guarantee of
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POWER SUPPLY REPAIR
Copyright November, 1994 by Randy Fromm We live in a "disposable society." Disposable razors, lighters, pens and a myriad of other items are a part of our daily life. Many operators consider power supplies to be disposable as well. Their rumored inability to be repaired and relatively low cost create the impression of disposability. This is not the case, however. I repair lots of power supplies and it's really quite easy and practical. In fact, a repaired supply may end up having a longer l
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/space_dungeon.txt
SPACE DUNGEON
The format for these connectors is PCB name, followed by the connectors in order -
each connector has the pin number, what it connects to (and the original wiring
harness colour in brackets where legible), and finally in square brackets the pcb
and connector + pin if relevant.
VIDEO PROCESSOR PCB (08-0001-001)
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
CONNECTOR J1
1 +5 (Red) [Power PCB J4-1]
2 +5 (Red) [Power PCB J4-2]
3 GND (Blk) [Power PCB J4-3]
4 -5 (Brn) [Power PCB J
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Atari Black & White Vector Generator Theory of Operation
(Extreme thanks to Duncan Brown for passing along this time consuming information!!) VECTOR ROM OR DISPLAY LIST CODE (as seen by the State Machine): Byte 1 Byte 2 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +--+--+- Y length (or rise) | | | | | | | | | | +---------------------------+---------- Overall scale factor | | | | | | | | (8 7 6 5)
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Defender Cheats and Strategy
Submitted by Unknown
When you get your last official guy before 1,000,000, every time you score, you'll get an extra man.
The trick we used was to win 100+ ships between 990,000 and 1,000,000, thus fooling the game based on where score rolls over rather than where ships roll over. The version where you win 100+ ships has been tested, the version where you win 256+ ships never was because:
a. For every point scored in Defender from 990,000 to 999,975 you will win one extra ship and smart b
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FAQ: Conversion v1.1
COPYRIGHT 1994 REVISION NUMBER: 1.1 REVISION DATE: 02 November 1994 REVISION HISTORY: 1.1 (02/11/94 - Clarified technical details in {6.4}, Added a few words on manuals in {7.3} and analog controllers in {8.1.3}) REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (01/11/94 - First public release; FTP only) CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir THANX TO: Wayne Aiken, Graham Bisset, Duncan Brown, David Hanes, Tony Jones, John Keay, Patti Ozd
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/joy_of_joys.txt
Joy Of Joys Keyboard:
How To Do It!
Tools Needed:
Soldering Iron
Hobbyist's Drill (Radio Shack USED to sell a plastic hand drill w/2 PC-board-hole-sized bits, but I don't know that they carry it anymore. Try a hobby shop.)
Hot Knife (Optional - Helpful if you're going to chassis-mount your connectors.)
Nibbling Tool (RS # 64-823) (Optional - Also helpful for installing chassis-mount connectors.)
Materials:
PC Concepts Windows 95 Compatible Keyboard (Office Depot, Item # 459-560, $19.95)
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Programming the Atari XY Vector Generator
The information in this document is not guaranteed to be accurate, use at your own risk. The Atari Analogue Vector Generator (or AVG) is the circuitry used to draw lines on the special XY monitors of some games from the late seventies and early eighties. These include Asteroids, Battlezone, Tempest, Gravitar and Star Wars, all of which used a slightly different AVG as the games evolved. The AVG is a small computer in its own right, it has its own ROM, RAM, instruction set and stack for subro
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Galaga Pinouts and Configuration
Galaga Pinouts and Dip Switches, for official and bootleg boards
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/superpac-man.txt
Here are the pinouts to Super Pac-Man. The first part of this file contains
original information pulled from the manual. At the end of this file, Scott
Lemon was kind enough to test the pinouts and he gives the minumum set of pins
needed to get the game to actually work.
--Dave Holcomb
holcomb@halcyon.com
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Midway, December 1982
There are three boards to the Super Pac-Man boardset:
CPU Boar
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FAQ POSTING (rgva.marketplace)
From: tony_jones@no.spam Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.marketplace Subject: FAQ POSTING (rgva.marketplace) Frequently Asked Questions rec.games.video.arcade.marketplace $Revision: 1.2 $ $Date: 1997/11/05 03:24:21 $ This is the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list for the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.video.arcade.marketplace. This FAQ is posted weekly and the current copy should be considered to supersede all previous postings. This
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/cinematronics-history.txt
THE HISTORY OF CINEMATRONICS AND A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR VECTOR GAMES
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COPYRIGHT 1994, 1995
REVISION NUMBER: 2.0
REVISION DATE: 23 December 1994
REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (02/11/92 - First attempt at listing and ordering
all Cinematronics games.)
REVISION HISTORY: 2.0 (12/23/94 - Rearranged sections, added new sections
for Barrier, Speed Freak, Boxing Bugs,
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Space Zap pinouts
Submitted by Dave Holcomb (holcomb@halcyon.com)
There are seven boards in the Space Zap boardset: Qty Position on Motherboard 1 *Game Bd A084-90708-A902 J5 1 Pattern Bd A082-91348-0000 J4 1 CPU Bd (C.P.U.) A082-91354-E000 J3 2 RAM Card A082-91356-C000 J2 & J1 1 Comm. Mother Bd A082-90006-B/C0
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FAQ: Buying Games at an Auction
Submitted by Doug Jefferys (dougj@sco.com) and Steve Ozdemir (ofoz@ihlpb.att.com)
NOTES FROM THE AUTHORS
The principal authors of this FAQ were Doug Jefferys and Steve Ozdemir . Although we did most of the writing work ourselves, we couldn't have produced this FAQ without the help of our loyal reviewers, a few of whom include:
Hedley Rainnie (hedley@iit.com), Steve Phillips (phillips@tegra.com), Jeff Turner (jeff@msc.edu)
If we missed any names in that list (and we probably did), let ei
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Crazy Climber Memory Map
CRAZY CLIMBER HARDWARE DETAILS AND MEMORY MAP by Lionel Theunissen. 08/01/97) Please don't take any of this information as gospel. This is what I have gleaned from my analysis of the CC ROMs and circuits, and I could be wrong about a few things. Some of it is best guess, but most of it should be correct. Bear in mind that it was quite a while ago (3 years) that I was originally working on this, so coming back into it I'm a little fuzzy on details. VIDEO: The video circuitry for Crazy Climber is
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Tempest Tech Info
Tempest Dip Switch Settings, Pinouts, Memory Map, ROM Info and EAROM info
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FAQ: BUYING FROM AN OPERATOR
---------------------------- FAQ: BUYING FROM AN OPERATOR Last Updated: 31 March 1998 ---------------------------- INTENT AND DISCLAIMERS: ----------------------- Copyright 1993, 1998 The authors hereby grant permission to reproduce and distribute this document for personal use, subject to the condition that the document (along with any copyright and disclaimer notices) is not modified in any way. The opinions expressed within this document are those of the authors only and not necessar
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Videogames on Alternative Monitors FAQ
Submitted by Jonathan Dawes (jond@videologic.com)
Last Updated: 12th Nov. 96
This FAQ is an attempt to provide answers to all those who, like me, have tried to attach their video games to either TVs or VGA monitors. It covers VGA monitors, SCART TVs, and RGB to composite video/UHF.
Thanks to John Keay for the SCART and 1084 pinouts
If you have any comments please feel free to mail me at
Disclaimer
This document is provided for informational purposes only. While every effort has been
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/xenophobe.txt
XENOPHOBE PINOUTS (Midway, 1987)
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For testing purposes, you can run the 68000 CPU board without the SOUNDS
GOOD daughterboard. Yes, this means that you can quickly power up the
game using only +5V, GND, and the video signals. If you hold |