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April_2001
Re: VECTOR: Asteroids hack


From: Neil Bradley ( )
Date: Mon Apr 30 2001 - 18:30:18 CDT


> > That's primarily the reason I started on an Asteroids Deluxe board - it
> > has the largest set of features for all boards. Of course it doesn't have
> > the thump sound in Asteroids, but I can fake it with the Pokey.
> Another thing to think about is availability. Of the three, there are
> probably more Asteroids boards around than anything else. I think that's why
> Clay picked the Asteroids board as the basis for his project.

And I picked the Asteroids Deluxe boardset because it's capable of doing
everything the other two boards can do. The Asteroids board lacks a Pokey,
so getting Deluxe to run on it would require far more hardware to make it
run.

-->Neil

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