Re: Atari AVG 137179-001 chip operation info needed

From: <litterbox99_at_mchsi.com>
Date: Wed Nov 02 2011 - 20:26:51 EDT

Here's a pic;

http://home.mchsi.com/~litterbox99/temp/avg.jpg

Todd
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From: litterbox99@mchsi.com
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Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 6:18:44 PM GMT -06:00 Central America
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Atari AVG 137179-001 chip operation info needed

I'm surprised Clay hasn't chimed in...

I have two of his 13179-001 replacement PCB's
in front of me (dated 12-2-99 serial # 5 & 6)

I can post some scans of the board if needed.

Todd

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jess Askey" <jess@askey.org>
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 5:54:18 PM GMT -06:00 Central America
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Atari AVG 137179-001 chip operation info needed

The Tempest schematic has a good representation of it but I believe the
IC has more RAM for a deeper stack. Here were the notes I made of the
whole shebang back in the 90's with an update in 2004...

http://gamearchive.askey.org/Video_Games/Stuff/text/avg.txt

not sure if that helps at all either.

jess

On 11/2/2011 5:37 PM, William Boucher wrote:
> Thanks for the link, I found the AVG.pdf file. Very interesting
> information there. It mainly pertains to how the AVG instructions
> relate to game operation. There's not much there with respect to how
> the circuit itself actually works, but I still have to go over the
> state machine drawing and the opcode listing. It appears that it had
> several more than just 4 functions. Again, thanks for that, more than
> likely very useful stuff.
>
>
> William Boucher
> http://www.biltronix.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom McClintock" <tomm@bhpllc.com>
> To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 6:35 PM
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: Atari AVG 137179-001 chip operation info needed
>
>
>> Andy got them from the Ireland plant and posted them at some point.
>> I've got them here:
>>
>> http://ionpool.net/arcade/atari_docs/atari_docs.html
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/2/2011 4:29 PM, Pat Danis wrote:
>>> There is a link (somewhere) that is in handwritten notes on how the AVG
>>> works etc. I am not sure if that is in Jed's pages or elsewhere. It is
>>> rather obscure and I am not sure if I have a copy on my computer or
>>> not.
>>> I shall see what I can find.
>>>
>>> Pat
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