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It's interesting how many Canadians are on the list that don't actively post on maaca. Do they lurk? Do they know about maaca? Or do they even care to be part of a forum?
It's interesting how many Canadians are on the list that don't actively post on maaca. Do they lurk? Do they know about maaca? Or do they even care to be part of a forum?
We are not as popular in the west. One or two members from Vancouver. And yes, there are always around 10-15 lurkers every day.
Ed's a pretty cool cat... I worked closely with him earlier this year for a month or two while we both tackled the wpc cpu board asic reverse-engineering. Ed managed to to squeeze the 68B09 cpu core, and the wpc asic into a single xilinx fpga, along with most of the other cpu support logic. i think he intends to fit the wpc95 A/V code in there as well. http://www.edcheung.com/album/album07/Pinball/wpc_sound.htm
I took a stand-alone xilinx fpga approach and emulated only the wpc cpu asic into my design, as seen in the working wpc cpu - asic board of my 'rush' machines... the asic I designed works 100% the same as the wpc, only without the real time clock. http://www.maaca.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?m-1199407468/s-15/
I quite enjoyed working with someone that has similar ambitions to achieve the same goal.
Version 1.57 (December 2, 2007) - "System 1" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The year is 1987, and NASA launches the last of America's deep space probes. In a freak mishap, Ranger 3 and its pilot, Captain William "Buck" Rogers are blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his life support systems and returns Buck Rogers to Earth 500 years later.
We had begun to think it would take 500 years to emulate Gottlieb System 1... but thanks to an anonymous MAACA member, we finally got good reads of the bios chips and they are now emulated. Get our your cards and backgammon boards, lucky Buck is back!
Mrhide.pinnesota.org RAA La marié de Pinbot et La Créature du Lagon Noir, Eclipse et Capt. Card
I cannot even imagine how much time was put into this; and to think over all that time, and handed all the engineering, Wayne Gillard was still unable to have the ASIC's reproduced.
I cannot even imagine how much time was put into this; and to think over all that time, and handed all the engineering, Wayne Gillard was still unable to have the ASIC's reproduced.