Re: Malibu

If you have too much stuff, why not ship it over here, at your expense
<grin> I can understand wanting to get rid of it...I would pick up some
filing cabinets for the stuff...(heh, heh)

I'm choking right now, because a fellow at Atari had put together a big box
of "junk" that he was going to ship me when Atari was housecleaning a few
years ago. Unfortuantly it "disappeared" on the way to the shipping
department. Sigh. Have reams of docs, and info on the boards...I hope
someone got it that can use it, and not a dumpster...

John :-#)#

At 12:19 AM 1/9/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>In article <200001082329.PAA26937@spies.com>, Al Kossow <aek@spies.com>
>writes
> >"Anyone ever heard of an Atari prototype called Malibu? "
> >
> >Yup.. It was a vector racing game. Anything turn up from it?
> >
>Well about 6 weeks ago I cleared out what I wanted from the old Atari
>factory in Tipperary. :)
>It was taken over about 3 years ago by Namco but was finally sold to a
>non video related company Dec 1st.
>Amongst the large amount of stuff I got was the entire field service
>files going back 20 years. It included so much stuff (paperwork -
>manuals, schematics, Memos, ECN's, etc ) I am only just scratching the
>surface but have unearthed very serious stuff indeed so far.
>I have found the original schematics of the Malibu board which shows
>audio signal names which indicated to me it was some sort of driving
>game. I also have recovered literally from the trash about 4 shoeboxes
>of original Atari roms. I may unearth something amongst them!
>Other stuff which may be of great interest I do not know if they already
>archived include Full files/descriptions of various vector games' AVG's
>mostly handwritten by the designers describing full operation of the
>State machines with op=codes, timing diagrams etc etc.
>
>Info overload here in Manchester....too much to read :(
>
>For instance I have the original game concept description (about 8 text
>pages) from Dave Theurer of Aliens.....Vortex......Tempest.
>A few production quantities have been noted....eg I can confirm the
>rumours that exactly 500 Quantums were built. How about the fact that
>Atari at one stage considered licencing Aztarac from Centuri!
>Also a lot of non vector stuff like schematics for Maze Invaders, facts
>like Roadrunner was originally going to be a laserdisc game, There was a
>followup conversion kit for Firefox already planned. How about an Anti
>Gravity game which was being worked on.
>Hardwarewise I got a full proto game called Metal Maniax and the
>prototype S1 cab. 2x PAT9000's another CAT box with pods, ALL the
>service parts (460 drawers full) going back 20 years (including PAL's)
>60 NOS laserdiscs etc, etc
>In all 2 full carloads of stuff and 4 pallets.
>
>Going back to the vector data, I don't mind putting it upon my site but
>it would be useful to know what Atari originated stuff is already
>archived so I don't repeat. I know a lot of stuff has been reverse
>engineered but this stuff is as such 'from the horse's mouth'
>So if anyone could tell me, it could save me a lot of time as I don't
>have much spare :(
>
>Thanks
>
>--
>XY-Man (U.K)

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Received on Sun Jan 9 01:55:30 2000