New aquisition: Xenophobe

--- Matthew Sell <msell(a)ontimesupport.com> wrote: That's typical around here for the houses I've lived in (pre-WW-I, typically, some with active knob-and-tube wiring). I haven't lived in a place with a 60A feed (there are plenty), but the most I have ever had is 100A. Not playable. I'm a whiz at the real Star Wars. I'm OK with the version that came out for the Amiga (uses the mouse for targetting). MAME/keyboard Star Wars is awful. I've seen instructions for how to make a facimile Star Wars controller out of PVC pipe and a few other goodies. Looks interesting but time consuming. I missed the chance to buy a (broken) sit-down Star Wars cabinet at the same time I bought my (broken) Gorf cabinet, but the operator wouldn't name a price (and shortly thereafter, his warehouse was levelled and is now a grassy field next to Chemical Abstracts, as a reference point for the locals on this list). If I run across a broken Star Wars, I'd rather fix it than make a controller from scratch. More payback for the same investment of time. Indeed. I stripped some AMD 2901s from a dead 11/730 board for a buddy to fix the math co-processor for his Battlezone. It has one or two 6502s for the main functions and sound, and a bolt-on 16-bit bit-slice vector engine. Apparently they are one of the first things to check if a particular diagnostic code appears. Fixed him right up. I have a stack of 11/730 CPU boards purchased over the 1988-1990 timeframe - it was frequently cheaper to keep our 11/730s running by purchasing entire CPUs than it was to buy a single board from a repair depot like ESS. DEC Field Service contracts were out of sight for deprecated hardware. I still have the 11/730 in storage. It's a nice old box if you can stand .4 VUPs, 5MB of RAM and 120MB of internal storage. Rather play with an 11/750, though. -ethan __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute