Re[2]: MAME now support Bradley Trainer !

From: peter jones <highwayman2000_at_mail.ru>
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 22:07:59 EST

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From: James G Watt <kinetic-arts@ntlworld.com>
To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:14:13 +0000
Subject: Re: VECTOR: MAME now support Bradley Trainer !

>
> This came up a month or 2 back (when bradley trainer hit mame
> unofficially).
> I'd love someone to reverse engineer the hardware so we could put it in
> a cab. Well now that I think about it, that amazing vector video card
> someone produced + mame would give you a pretty close approximation of
> it quite easily but I'd rather do it the hard way :P
>
> I wish it wasn't WAY beyond my abilities to work it out.
>
> It seems to me, anyway, that step 1 is to get the game running on an
> unmodified bz board set.
>
> Looking at the mame source am I right in saying you need an extra eprom
> - I see the original pcb has an extra daughter card BUT looking at the
> battlezone single rom hack it appears the space is there for the extra
> code? am I right? So maybe that bit's easy. Should be easy to use a
> larger rom and make something switchable between BZ and BT.
>
> Next thing's the aux board. Don't know about anyone else but I don't
> fancy getting all those proms replaced. Anyone worked out a single rom
> or prom hack for the aux board? again making it large enough to hold
> both bz amd bt ... hell, and maybe red baron too for good measure would
> be the way to go.
>
i was thinking that while reading the soarcecode this morning,

i will probably try it at x-mas, i have a bz boardset that needs work at my mates, should get it back by then :-)

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