Re: VECTOR: Zaccaria Space Pirat (Rip off)

Zonn <[email protected]> Tue, 10 May 2005 11:14:04 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.games.arcade.vector
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On Tue, 10 May 2005 17:52:34 +0200, "vernimark\@libero\.it" On Tue, 10 May 2005
17:52:34 +0200, "vernimark\@libero\.it" <[email protected]> wrote:

>first of all the correct name is "space pirate" and not "space pirat", sorry...
>then:
>
>motherboard is a real cinematronics pcb with a different power connector (the same used in other zaccaria pcbs) and two labels: "cinematronics" and "zaccaria"
>
>monitor is the famous mtrv hantarex but with green phosphors (no overlay)
>
>sound board has been modified: no power regulators (moved in a power supply board) and A/D converter (two DAC80s with, more or less, the same circuit used by atari in asteroids).

I'd venture to say it's more on the 'less' side of looking like anything Atari.
;-)

Those DAC80s would be the DACs used in the Cinematronics to Hantarex (standard
X/Y monitor) conversion process. Which would be, more or less, the same circuit
as used on a standard Cinematronics monitor.

-Zonn