Ethan wrote:
> Any of the Atari vector machines are likely to have 2901's as the core of
> a math co-processor to manupulate those vectors faster than the little 6502
> ever could. My friend Tony is the Atari vector king; I've never owned one,
> unfortunately.
Hey, and don't forget me! :-) I wrote the simulator for the Red Baron/
Battlezone/Tempest mathbox, which is still in MAME to this day. I also
wrote the first simulator for the vector generators (DVG and AVG), but those
have largely been rewritten.
A copy of the ancient simulator Hedley Rainnie and I wrote (back in 1991!)
can be found at
ftp://ftp.brouhaha.com/pub/eric/coinop_sim/vecsim.tgz
It ran all of the Atari vector games except Star Wars, The Empire Strikes
Back, and Quantum. Of course, the stuff in MAME now is better, but we
didn't have 500 MHz Pentium II machines back then.
Received on Thu Apr 08 1999 - 14:28:20 BST