RE: More Star Castle info

G'day folks,

I've found upgraded Space Wars board (with no LED) running Rip Off in a
Rip Off cabinet. Turns out that Cinematronics would take every
opportunity to reuse parts that had been returned and repaired. This
might explain your jumpers.

Also Warrior has a wire going to each EPROM, but this had more to do
with the 2532s, masked ROMs and Vectorbeam boards as I remember. Don't
quote me on that as my memory has gotten vague. Need to get my
Cinematronics boxes out of storage to refresh it! Maybe Zonn or Paul
could continue the discussion regarding that EPROM wiring mod from this
era?

Didn't Rip Off and Armor Attack have start buttons in the middle?
Sounds to me like you have a pieced together Star Castle using an old
Space Wars mother board and a Rip Off control panel. Given how
Cinematronics operated (and perhaps Centuri), this hack job still could
have been done at the manufacturer.

Check out the name on the motherboard...I'm betting it'll either be a
Space Wars or Vectorbeam board.

               Steven S Ozdemir
               sso@plpt.com (my company renamed itself in Feb)
               sso@dsc.com (good for a few more months)
               ozdemir@xenon.stanford.edu (permanent...weekly)

ps - I never did check out the dip switches on that Rip Off on a Space
Wars motherboard. They must have desoldered the small dip to put the 8
dip package. Funny that I didn't verify that...

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>From: jeffh@diac.com[SMTP:jeffh@diac.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 2:25 PM
>To: vectorlist@spies.com
>Cc: jeffh@diac.com
>Subject: More Star Castle info
>
>Here's some more info on this star castle.
>The game board has lots of jumper wires on it, including a wire on every
>eprom. Again, there is no LED on the main PCB. (When did they start putting
>those on?) The sound board just says sound board on it, but it looks real
>close to what a normal star castle sound board looks like. (I plan on
>comparing it side by side when I get a chance).
>The control panel has the start buttons in the middle (instead of off to
>the left). The panel is black and the buttons are all labeled with white
>letters. The marquee looks close to the original, but the artwork is a
>little different and it doesn't have all the small print. The marquee has a
>90 degree bend that runs horizontally through the middle of it (so the top
>half of the marquee angles up and the bottom half angles down)
>I can't find any manufacturer name on the outside of the game, and I
>haven't looked close enough at the main board to see if I can find a name
>on it, but it does look like a standard cinematronics/vectorbeam board (I
>was looking through the coin door because I have my garage packed full
>again)
>I think this game is from texas, did cinematronics have any test sights
>down there?
>
>-jeff
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Received on Wed Apr 1 14:49:44 1998