Well, it's playable now. It's got robotron-style movement, with seperate controls for moving and firing. Moving actually uses an analog joystick, which can allow speed control, but I haven't actually hooked that up yet.
The only thing that's really missing is sound. It writes sample numbers to a port, so there must have been an additional audio board. Hopefully we can dig up more info on this, if the board and/or ROM images still exist anymore.
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Fun with FPGAs - recreating the Atari TIA, Part 1
I have been playing with recreating the Atari TIA chip as used in the original 2600 in an FPGA. I know this has been done a few times alrea...
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I have been playing with recreating the Atari TIA chip as used in the original 2600 in an FPGA. I know this has been done a few times alrea... -
Well, I found time to make a few more discoveries. The Space Raider boardset is 3 PCB's. Two of them are full size and obviously two hal...
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Great Work!!!!!!
As with Professor Pacman - truly amazing work. This classic 80's relic will (hopefully) live on in Mame. Let's hope some kind soul can provide access to the sound/speech info.
So what do you think, Frank, it's using a Squawk and Talk board? (TMS5200)
great work
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