Re: Atari board differences by cabinet type?

But the correction was an additional board that plugged onto the game pcb,
ie, the game pcbs were all the same, i think thats what Joe was after..

Andrew Welburn
www.andys-arcade.com
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From: "Mark Shostak" <shostakmark@gmail.com>
To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Atari board differences by cabinet type?

> Yes, and monitor type was related to... cabinet type (e.g. 6100 in Tempest
> conversion vs. DMH). There were some exceptions, but they were just that,
> exceptions.
>
> Also of notable mention is the display pincushion corrector adjunct, which
> is another example of h/w specific to a cabinet type (as qualified above).
>
> -Mark
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Franklin Bowen <Franklin@bowen.net>
> wrote:
>
>> But the basis for that difference was monitor type, not cabinet type.
>>
>> Like Chris C. already wrote, Atari appears to have only created one board
>> with one set of software for a game. Then the software has a way to
>> determine whether it is installed in an upright or cocktail and different
>> sections of code are executed based on that.
>>
>> Now that I have written this, I am sure people will find examples to the
>> contrary. :-)
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Franklin
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/19/2010 11:14 AM, Mark Shostak wrote:
>>
>>> MH (re: xtal freq.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone so delivery may be delayed due to AT&T network
>>> congestion.
>>>
>>> On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Joseph Magiera
>>> <joemagiera@ameritech.net<mailto:
>>> joemagiera@ameritech.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of any hardware or software differences that exist for
>>>> any Atari vector game that the differences are based on or because of
>>>> the
>>>> cabinet type, i.e., upright, cocktail, cockpit, cabaret? I know there
>>>> are
>>>> differences for Eliminator (Sega) but I don't think I've ever heard of
>>>> any
>>>> for Atari. Anyone?
>>>> Joe
>>>>
>>>>
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