RE: Tailgunner has a special monitor?

G'day folks,

Yup, I agree with Joe. I do remember plugging a Star Castle set into a
Tail Gunner cabinet and not getting very far, but it didn't have
anything to do with the monitorl. When I said I had problems, I'm not
talking about incompatible sound boards...I'm talking about the LED on
the motherboard staying on! I'll bet this had to do with the JMI wire
mod on the Star Castle, but I'll leave it to Paul or Zonn to explain.

The sound board to Tail Gunner had a bunch of extra connectors on it. I
think it had the 2708 daughter board AND an extra connector for the
joystick. Quite a crazy set up...didn't Speed Freak use this for the
pot on the steering wheel?

                Steven S Ozdemir
                sso@dsc.com

ps - I vaguely remember seeing in the Rip Off manual some lines between
the sound board and the mother board being labelled as "Aux" or "Extra"
with the implication that they were used in analog to digital
conversion. But don't quote me on this...I haven't cracked open a
Cinematronics manual in over a year!

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>From: jwelser@crystal.cirrus.com[SMTP:jwelser@crystal.cirrus.com]
>Sent: Monday, August 11, 1997 8:49 AM
>To: vectorlist@goonsquad.spies.com
>Subject: Re: Tailgunner has a special monitor?
>
>> I was just trying to figure out where the XDAC output signal for the
>> comparitors used for the joystick A/D is generated, and I don't see
>> pin 16 of the monitor connector hooked up to anything on any of the
>> monitor schematics that I have (I don't have a Tailgunner manual..)
>> Could someone take a look and tell me how it is interfaced (I assume
>> it's somewhere between the DAC output and the analog switches, but
>> is there a buffer or anything used to isolate the off-card signal
>> from the analog switches?)
>>
>> I was also curious what kind of Cine monitor Tailgunner uses.
>>
>
> I'm not sure about any of the other stuff, but Tailgunner uses a
>standard Cine monitor. I've got a monitor sitting in storage with Tailgunner
>burn-in, and it's definitely a standard one (it has the "3rd type" of HV cage
>-- the gray/black one, but that's its only distinguishing feature from my
>other Cine monitors.)
>
>Joe
>
>
Received on Mon Aug 11 09:57:22 1997