Re: Nolan Bushnell on ZDTV

1-player Computer Space has 3 boards, 2-player has 4 boards. The boards in
Als pics are of a 2-player: 2-player's ships and 2 saucers. 1-player CS
has diode maps for 1 ship and 2 saucers.

I actually gave up on fixing the original GE tube set.. it worked fine for
years, then it started having problems left and right this summer. Yes I
know its blasphemy, but the CS 1-player in Videotopia has a hacked-up
panasonic pro B/W monitor (circa 1985) in it now.. dont worry too much
though, the PONG isnt running MAME. :>

Jeff

ps-Joe did you ever hear from steve about the CSes?

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Rodger Boots wrote:

> No, Computer space was four boards of 7400 series logic (for the one-player
> version). They didn't even have ROMs back then, they used multiplexers,
> demultiplexers, and a LOT of diodes to generate the saucer and ship. Know this
> because I used to work on them.
>
> If you ever get a chance to go to Videotopia ask to take a look inside one. Even
> the monitor was a modified TUBE type TV set.
>
>
> Tek wrote:
>
> > Not true, Computer Space used a microprocessor, but it was FAAAR to slow. The
> > game played horrible (hence the failure of it).
> >
> > The 'new' TTL logic made it possible to make games a lot faster... :)
> >
> > (At leastm that's is what tey've told me. I don't believe i'll ever see any
> > computer space in my life... :( )
> >
> > Rodger Boots wrote:
> > >
> > > Not to be nit picky (but I will anyway), there is no code for Pong, it was WAY
> > > before microprocessors were used in games.
> > >
> > > Jeff Bovee wrote:
> > >
> > > > He doesn't claim to have actually written the code for Pong, he only claims
> > > > to have created the idea for Pong, and how it should play and feel. There
> > > > is a great article about it on Brian's site http://coinop.vintagegaming.com
> > > > , seems like a truly interesting guy to listen to anyway.
> > > >
> > > > Jeff
>
>
Received on Fri Jan 7 10:17:53 2000