VECTORLIST - The Mailing List For The Technical Discussion of Vector-Based Arcade Games

June_1999
RE: Tempest Multigame (holding pattern)


From: Clay Cowgill ( )
Date: Wed Jun 30 1999 - 13:41:43 CDT


> While reverse engineering the Mathbox for Retrocade, I have a *very*
> vague memory of someone emailing me about more than one version of the
> Mathbox proms. Like something was added for Tempest from the Red
> Baron version (or vica-versa). I'm pretty sure there are some mathbox
> routines that are never called by Tempest. Maybe they need to be
> there for Vortex / Aliens?
>
That's my primary suspicion at the moment. Doug has a "rev 1" Mathbox
board, but you'd think that that would probably be closer to what Aliens or
Vortex would want... I'm going to go scrounging and see what I can figure
out during lunch...

> But I could easily be confused. Neil would be the person to ask, know
> anything about this Neil?
>
Yeah, good idea! Neil? ;-)

-Clay


HOME