Introduction & Question

Hi All,

I'm an old-school 6502 programmer from back in the Atari 8-bit days. Loved the vector
arcade games like Battlezone, Tempest, Space Duel, Gravitar, etc. Had my own Tempest in
'84 but wasn't able to take it with me to Kansas City when I left Massachusetts, so I
picked up a Space Duel in '87 and another Tempest in 2002. Had some problems with both
and recently repaired both of them and now they're working great (knock on wood).

So the other day I had this (I thought, anyway) original, brilliant idea of hacking Space
Duel to make it run a version of the old "Space War" vector game. The controls would work
without modification for two players, and the thing would be in color -- how cool!

Well, then I found out a guy named Jeff Hendrix apparently had the same idea back in
1999-2000 (so much for my "original" idea!) and I found a ROM image of the game via
Google. I haven't burned a ROM set from it yet but it runs on MAME on my Android phone
and doesn't quite look complete.

Is Jeff still around on the list? I'd love to talk to him about either (A) helping
complete the game or (B) getting hold of the basic knowledge (hardware registers,
interrupts, etc.) that would let me code up the game myself. I think it'd be a ton of fun
to do and I'd make it freely available to everyone.

If Jeff is here, or if anyone can help me get in touch with him or help me get the
information on writing the custom code for the Space Duel hardware, that would be a huge
help. Otherwise, I'll be stuck disassembling Jeff's ROMs and the task will be a lot tougher.

Thanks!
-Tom

-- 
Thomas Hudson
http://portev.org -- Electric Vehicles, Solar Power&  More
http://klanky.com -- Animation Projects
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