Re: Asteroids hack

Ok, ok. This Lunar Lander hack was admirably not done by me. I have
trouble determining the ass-end of a PCB (they have ass-ends don't
they?). This Lunar Lander hack was found by Callan Hendricks here in
Dallas, but that's about all I know. There was an attempt to start the
board, but it gave no signs of life, so back on the self it went. There
are a number of empty sockets (EPROMs and a couple others) so I'm not
100% certain there shouldn't be a daughterboard of some kind on there.

While doing a little research I found those ads for the Lunar Lander
hack in the StarTech Journal. I suspect the two places selling the
'hack' didn't sell that many - especially when you consider you could
buy a slightly used Asteroids (working) in 1981-1982 for only a little
more than this Lunar Lander to Asteroids hack - $650. Adjusted for
inflation, that's about $1,100 in today's money. Huh?!?

I agree it would be much better (and most cost effective) for someone to
develop a multigame on an Asteroids or Asteroids Deluxe platform. But
out of curiosity, doesn't anyone on this list have one of these hacked
Lunar Lander boards, or any of the other hacks? Star Castle speed-up
kit?

tom

Neil Bradley wrote:
>
> > > That's primarily the reason I started on an Asteroids Deluxe board - it
> > > has the largest set of features for all boards. Of course it doesn't have
> > > the thump sound in Asteroids, but I can fake it with the Pokey.
> > Another thing to think about is availability. Of the three, there are
> > probably more Asteroids boards around than anything else. I think that's why
> > Clay picked the Asteroids board as the basis for his project.
>
> And I picked the Asteroids Deluxe boardset because it's capable of doing
> everything the other two boards can do. The Asteroids board lacks a Pokey,
> so getting Deluxe to run on it would require far more hardware to make it
> run.
>
> -->Neil
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