RE: Original ESB PCB for sale

> ObVector: I did look at a Barrier sound board again this weekend.
> It's
> more organized than the Space Wars, but the component count has to be
> the same. Shouldn't we be able to remanufacture both of these with
> some
> of the modern stuff. Didn't Joe say there was something that could
> duplicate simple analog circuits like the ones used by Space Wars and
> Barrier? (Speed Freak's sound board looks like Star Hawk's...at least
> 20 ICs and alot of organization. Not a candidate...sorry.)
>
I just bought Electronics Workbench which is a mixed-mode circuit
simulator. It uses SPICE (3R5 I think) as an analog engine which has
been extended to support digital circuits as well. Really handy for
seeing how stuff works (especially for non-analog guru's like me ;-).

I was going to try to simulate a couple sounds from the Space Fury sound
board with it for grins... (I already used it for making some
color-output circuits for a vector generator. Pretty cool.)

Electronics Workbench is ~$300, but I remembered an old $199 promotion
so I called and asked if I could have that price. They gave it to me
for $200... (And they make Mac Versions, Al ;-)

There are certainly higher-end solutions that do mixed-mode stuff
(DR-SPICE comes to mind) but I think they're much bigger $$$. EW has a
friendly "hobbiest" feel to it (but some of my co-workers used it
extensively in "pro" applications too).

-Clay
Received on Tue Mar 10 09:07:32 1998