New aquisition: Xenophobe

It's not a general-purpose computer, but it does have two Motorola MC68000 processors in it (main board and sound board) and was built in 1987, so it's on-topic... Went to the USAA arcade auction today... it's free to get in and free to get a bidder number. Just had to pay the fairgrounds $4 to park. Played a lot of pinball for free (gotta investigate the merchandise, naturally ;-) and a few classic video games. I saw stripped cocktail cabinets (no board, monitor or glass) go for nearly $100. I saw some 1950s electo-mechanical games go for under $200. Pac-Man fetched $600 or more. Space Invaders with some plexiglass scratches went for about $200. A video bowling game went for $900! Generally speaking, name-brand games (Defender, Dig-Dug, Frogger and the like) went for $400-$600. They got to the Xenophobe and I walked away with it for $200. Me and one other guy. It went $100-$150-$200 and they couldn't get another bid. Works perfectly. I've seen just the game controllers sell on ePay for $85 each. Now to get it in my house from the porch. I had to disassemble it to get it up the front stairs alone. I have to put the monitor enclosure back on its stalk and put the controls back on the front, plug in a few connectors and I'm back in business. It's no $15 cocktail game, but I've wanted one for years. If only there were some hacks for it. Oh yeah! That's right! It came with full schematics in a pouch in the door. Just need a memory map and I'm hacking away... I can use MAME to test the hacks before burning EPROMs. -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com