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| SWITCHABLE CONVERSION BETWEEN GRAVITAR AND BLACK WIDOW |
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COPYRIGHT 1993
REVISION NUMBER: 1.1 (first public release)
REVISION DATE: 17 March 1994
CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys
STANDARD DISCLAIMER:
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The author hereby grants permission to reproduce and distribute this
document for personal use, subject to the condition that the document
(along
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/cinematronics-history.txt
THE HISTORY OF CINEMATRONICS AND A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR VECTOR GAMES
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COPYRIGHT 1994, 1995
REVISION NUMBER: 2.0
REVISION DATE: 23 December 1994
REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (02/11/92 - First attempt at listing and ordering
all Cinematronics games.)
REVISION HISTORY: 2.0 (12/23/94 - Rearranged sections, added new sections
for Barrier, Speed Freak, Boxing Bugs,
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Wintron Amplifone X/Y monitor replacement Hi-V Transformer Information
Submitted by Dave Fish
Just got off the phone with the engineer at Wintron who designed the replacement Hi-V transformer for the Amplifone X/Y monitor. It seems that the documentation which was sent out with some of the transformers a while back had some errors in it. He faxed me out a copy of the newer drawing which has a date of September 19, 1996. With Rick's permission here are the correct connections:
Wintron Drawing #26862802 Lead connections: [COLOR Pin # Signal] RED - 9 - B
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax84.txt
Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1984 Jed Margolin
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From: KIM::SUTTLES 9-JAN-1984 11:40
To: @SYS$MAIL:COINOP
Subj: A neat trick with mail
For all of you who use the MAIL program as a form of
the "paperless office", I have discovered a bug (pronounced
"fea-ture") in same.
It seems that the addressee line (TO: ...) is parsed
independently of file handling. Mail looks at each item in
the list, and checks for a double colon (
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Tron to Satan's Hollow conversion (long - with pinouts!)
Hi all. Last night I convverted my Tron Mini into a dedicated Satans Hollow. It's not as easy as i thought it would be...
First things first. Satans Hollow and Tron have quite a bit in common, and they have almost as many differences. My situation was this: I have a Satans hollow fullsize control panel (with controls), a fullsize tron control panel with controls, and a mini tron control panel without controls. I've got 2 Bally/Midway MCR/II board sandwiches. One with Tron eproms, the other with Sata
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/joy_of_joys.txt
Joy Of Joys Keyboard:
How To Do It!
Tools Needed:
Soldering Iron
Hobbyist's Drill (Radio Shack USED to sell a plastic hand drill w/2 PC-board-hole-sized bits, but I don't know that they carry it anymore. Try a hobby shop.)
Hot Knife (Optional - Helpful if you're going to chassis-mount your connectors.)
Nibbling Tool (RS # 64-823) (Optional - Also helpful for installing chassis-mount connectors.)
Materials:
PC Concepts Windows 95 Compatible Keyboard (Office Depot, Item # 459-560, $19.95)
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/gravitar2majorhavoc.txt
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The following documents what is necessary to convert a Gravitar (GRAV),
Space Duel (SD) or Black Widow (BW) to play Major Havoc (MH).
Last Modified: Feb 22 1994
STANDARD DISCLAIMER: The author hereby grants permission to reproduce and
distribute this document for personal use, subject to the condition that
the document (along with any copyright and disclaimer notices) is not
modified in any way. The opinions expressed within t
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/monitortech/atarixyhints.txt
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade
From: woodcock@bnr.ca (Gregg Woodcock)
Subject: How to repair Atari's color XY (vector) monitors (update)
Sender: news@news.rich.bnr.ca (news server)
Message-ID: <C6z10H.3tB@news.rich.bnr.ca>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 15:14:41 GMT
Reply-To: woodcock@bnr.ca (Gregg Woodcock)
Nntp-Posting-Host: crchh75b
Organization: Bell-Northern Research; Richardson, Texas, USA
Keywords: Atari color XY vector monitor Ampliphone Wells-Gardner repair
Lines: 491
I decided to combine the Amplipho
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gamemanuals/atari/batzn2b.tiff
From Vector Generator Vr’ DV’8 .7 0qy7 vY V5 D\1Y4 OVY3 — -C-- ALTERNATE. I C: R.U TY AMcOIZ I ATA I - VERSI.I1 S R50 CENTER B 0 CENTER -4:- L I -ISV--Wv-+I5V I I R.9I1S I CE.KiTE CCMFkDI’J EPT Lpi J + To Microprocessor NMI Counter C 50 Analog Vector-Generator PCB Outputs Adjustment of R73 and R74 ovx_a 4 Dvø S Dvx < Jx8 — AS 1- AM6OZ +s’J .7 tVX7 6 vx VKS :z\J7 (4 a ø R 1I Coin Door and Option Switch Inputs To Mroprocessor OBO thru DB7 From Microprocessor Address Decoder From Clock Circuitry From Vector-Ge
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/starwarstoesb.txt
Converting a Star Wars to an Empire Strikes Back arcade game.
Version 1.1, Copyright Cliff Koch, 1996
Revision log:
1.0 Original Posting
1.1 Added the data bus wires on the daughterboard netlist (oops).
I. Disclaimer
Doing this conversion requires reasonable soldering skills. Incorrect
wiring could cause damage to the game boards. You do these
modifications
at your own risk. I did my best to be accurate at describing the
conversion, but could have made an
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/conversion_faq_v1.1.txt
1.0) Conversion FAQ:
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COPYRIGHT 1994
REVISION NUMBER: 1.1
REVISION DATE: 02 November 1994
REVISION HISTORY: 1.1 (02/11/94 - Clarified technical details in {6.4},
Added a few words on manuals in {7.3}
and analog controllers in {8.1.3})
REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (01/11/94 - First public release; FTP only)
CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir
THANX TO: Wayne Aiken, Graham Bisset, Duncan Brown, David Hanes,
To
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/cinemonitorrepair.txt
From: zonn@concentric.net (Zonn Moore)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
Subject: Re: TECH:Cinematronics vectors
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 06:55:00 GMT
Organization: Concentric Internet Services
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Message-ID: <332e3261.814372@news.concentric.net>
References: <01bc3420$86b5f200$228480d0@default>
Reply-To: zonn@concentric.net
NNTP-Posting-Host: cnc132049.concentric.net
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/1
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Typical Failures of Early Williams Games
From: woodcock@crchh75b.bnr.ca (Gregg Woodcock) Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting Subject: Re: Typical Failures of Early Williams Games Date: 22 Feb 1994 23:29:15 GMT richard.l.schieve (rls@cbnewsc.cb.att.com) wrote: > Several people have asked me to repost some of my old articles. > I suspect many have seen the following which was one of my first > "Tech Tips" ;-) Sorry to do this to you again, Rick, but I have added a BUNCH of stuff to your file and would like to "share", too (I c
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/monitortech/gwoodcock_xyhelp.txt
HOW TO DIAGNOSE, REPAIR AND UPGRADE YOUR
AMPLIFONE AND WELLS-GARDNER COLOR VECTOR (XY) MONITORS
version 6.1 (4-6-96) by
Gregg Woodcock (woodcock@nortel.com)
This article is Copyright worldwide 1991, 1996; all rights reserved.
OFFICIAL CYA LEGAL WARNING AND WAIVER:
Although I have made every effort to be precise, this article may
contain errors. Even if it does not, some people may still damage their
machines or themselves while using the
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FAQ: Conversion v1.1
COPYRIGHT 1994 REVISION NUMBER: 1.1 REVISION DATE: 02 November 1994 REVISION HISTORY: 1.1 (02/11/94 - Clarified technical details in {6.4}, Added a few words on manuals in {7.3} and analog controllers in {8.1.3}) REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (01/11/94 - First public release; FTP only) CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir THANX TO: Wayne Aiken, Graham Bisset, Duncan Brown, David Hanes, Tony Jones, John Keay, Patti Ozd
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/williams_conversion.txt
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COPYRIGHT 1994
REVISION NUMBER: 1.1 (Minor bug fix: Line 976 now shows the
correct "Y7-X8" connection, not the bogus
"Y7-X7" connection from 1.0)
REVISION DATE: 20 Oct 1994
CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax89.txt
Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1989 Jed Margolin
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From: KIM::HALLY 3-JAN-1989 09:01:01.61
To: DENCKER,RAY,HALLY,ROTBERG,BURGESS,MARGOLIN,COMSTOCK,NOBLE,MOSER,DIEKNEITE,FULLER,GROSSMAN
CC:
Subj: S.T.U.N. TEAM
last update: 1/3/89
Project: S.T.U.N. RUNNER (571)
Planned Field Test: FEB. 89
Planned Finished Goods Assy. JUNE 89
Project Leader: MIKE HALLY
Programmer(s): ED ROTBERG
ANDY BURGESS
Engineer: JE
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1986 Jed Margolin
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From: ERNIE::GRAHAM 2-JAN-1986 10:21:33.70
To: @SYS$MAIL:JUNK
CC:
Subj: ATARI GAMES 401-K PLAN
John Klein asked me to put the following memo out on junk mail:
TO: All Employees
FROM: John Klein/Dennis Wood
We are quite pleased to report that our 401-K Plan has gotten off
to an excellent start. As of today we had 118 employees making
contributions to the Plan.
We encoura
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1985 Jed Margolin
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From: KIM::SHEPPERD 4-JAN-1985 17:20
To: @SYS$MAIL:JUNK.UAF
Subj: Printer in Rains's area
There is another printer hooked up now in the phone closet near Rains's office.
It's known as RAINS$PRINT and if you want it to be the default printer for you
then put the following in your LOGIN.COM file:
$ ASS 'f$log("RAINS$PRINT")' SYS$PRINT
The physical name is TXD5:, but I advise
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1990 Jed Margolin
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From: BERT::LTURNER 2-JAN-1990 15:43:12.18
To: @SYS$MAIL:EVERYBODY
CC: LTURNER
Subj: New Baby
This is to annouce the arrival of a new addition at the
Moore house. His name is Evan Alexander Bettencourt Moore.
He was born on Saturday, December 30, at 10:21A.
Weight -- 7 lbs 10 oz
Height -- 20 1/2 inches
Mother and baby are home and doing well.
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1988 Jed Margolin
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From: MIKE::LIEBSTER 4-JAN-1988 14:39:28.82
To: @SYS$MAIL:EVERYBODY
CC:
Subj: PAYMENT OF CONSULTANTS/CONTRACTORS
STARTING THIS YEAR WE WILL BE PAYING CONSULTANTS AND CONTRACTORS THROUGH
PAYROLL INSTEAD OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE. THIS WILL ALLOW US TO AUTOMATICALLY
KEEP TRACK AND GENERATE YEAR-END 1099 INFORMATION.
THIS WILL APPLY TO ALL CONTRACTORS OR COMPANIES THAT ARE NO
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1991 Jed Margolin
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From: GAWD::MCCARTHY "Pat" 2-JAN-1991 12:37:15.74
To: @SYS$MAIL:JUNK
CC: MCCARTHY
Subj: New employee.
If you haven't already noticed or been introduced, we have a new
employee starting today.
His name is John Moore. He is a hardware design engineer in the
Electrical Design group, reporting to me. His office is the corner
cubicle just outside my office.
Drop by and say Hi.
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1987 Jed Margolin
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From: KIM::RAINS 2-JAN-1987 10:27:26.19
To: @sys$mail:engineer
CC:
Subj: Computer Health Note #3
VAX-edrin Headache #3
You've been poking around somewhere in another directory (something like
SYS$USERDISK:[FRED.STUFF.MORESTUFF.EVENMORESTUFF]) and now you have found
something you want to get back to or reference with out so much directory name
baggage. Sure, it doesn't
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1992 Jed Margolin
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From: BERT::FRANCES 2-JAN-1992 17:56:52.97
To: MARGOLIN
CC:
Subj: PHONE MESSAGE
DAN ASH 879-3037 10:27AM
NEW 2101 MATERIAL HAS NO BUGS. CALL MARGO FOR MORE INFO.
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From: BERT::BROWN 3-JAN-1992 19:39:22.02
To: @SYS$MAIL:EVERYBODY
CC: BROWN
Subj: PREMIUM PAYMENT PLAN, MODIFIED CAFETERIA PLAN
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