Re: VECTOR: Zaccaria Space Pirat (Rip off)

peter jones wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Graham Toal <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 08:18:34 -0500
>Subject: Re: VECTOR: Zaccaria Space Pirat (Rip off)
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>>>www.vernimark.com/temp/spacepirat/spacepirat01.jpg
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>>>Soon schematics, other pics, ...
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>>I was sitting here saying to myself, "come on man, tell us
>>what game it is a rip off of!!!" when finally the penny
>>dropped :-)
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>>Is this Cinematronics hardware or did they port it to
>>another processor?  Does the game look exactly like Rip Off
>>or did they change the graphics?
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>bastards probably ported it to the signetics 2650, they loved that pile of crap.
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Pile of crap?  Just because it's the only processor I can think of where 
they thought having only 15 address lines was a good idea?  Or is it 
because it was single sourced??  Well actually Signetics had an 
agreement with National where they could cross-produce 2650 and SC/MP 
processors.  SC/MP was weird, but in a good way, Signetics got the 
better end of that deal.  But, as far as I know, neither bothered making 
the others part.

In any case, didn't Meadows Games use up all the 2650s (except for the 
one Fun Games 'Kong' prototype)?