Re: VECTOR: TECH: Major Havoc

Thanks for the reply.  I thought that it sounded odd plugging MH into SD w/o 
an adapter, thus the post.   :)


-Steve P.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom McClintock" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: TECH: Major Havoc


>
>
> Steve P. wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible that the Tempest adapter card might have a bad chip?  I 
>> know it controls the pincoushining, but is there more to it than that?
>
> The adapter PCBs only do two things as you have noted - remap the pinouts 
> and provide pincoushion correction.
>
>
>
>> Also, can I plug the MH PCB into a Space Duel harness w/o the adapter 
>> card as a way of testing?  I searched Dejanews and Clay Cowgill mentions 
>> that you can plug the MH into a SD harness with no ill effect.
>
> Uh, you can take a quick look a thte pinouts for each and see that the 
> video outputs on Major Havoc are quite different than either Space Duel or 
> Gravitar. So, I would say no to this question.
>
> Here are some details on the conversion PCBs that I cobbeled together 
> earlier this year:
> http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/mh/major_havoc_conversion.txt
>
>
>
> tm
>
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