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Re: Cinematronics Pong clone...
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#337180 - 02/25/15 08:08 AM
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Very little info about this on the web!?!?!?!
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Re: Cinematronics Pong clone...
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#337183 - 02/25/15 08:27 AM
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Re: Cinematronics Pong clone...
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#337185 - 02/25/15 09:23 AM
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It's definitely not "Flipper Ball"
I have a working "T.V. Pin Game" board (which is similar, if not the same as "Flipper Ball") and it is much bigger than this Cinematronics board.
The date code stamped on the Cinematronics board is 7522.
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Re: Cinematronics Pong clone......so envious here.
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#337199 - 02/25/15 03:34 PM
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*partly kidding* ;-)
I already have about 75% complete with Atari pong pcb ascii layout, but now completing the resistor and capacitor portion of the layout. I know I mentioned this stuff long ago, but I had misplaced the file a couple years ago and recently found it again and added more to it just last week. I'll upload the ascii layout here when completed and you can see how the Cinematronics pcb differs.
The generic pong ascii layout that I have started should cover 4 or 5 dedicated two player arcade pong pcbs such as Paddle Battle, Paddle Ball etc.
It could be that the Cinematronics pcb is a newer generation of pong clones and supports more features compared to earlier pong games of Atari Pong or Allied Leisure Paddle Battle.
It is really time to start adding lots more text and data into MAME's source file of pong.c even though it might clutter up things later for couriersud in case couriersud ever tackles pong.c again.
>I have a working "T.V. Pin Game" board (which is similar, if not the same as "Flipper >Ball") and it is much bigger than this Cinematronics board.
>The date code stamped on the Cinematronics board is 7522.
Congrats there. I guess the 75 has something to do with year 1975? I wonder if 22 is related to second month....February and the other digit 2 is regarding day with release date as such....February 02, 1975?
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Re: Cinematronics Pong clone......so envious here.
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#337201 - 02/25/15 03:52 PM
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> > The date code stamped on the Cinematronics board is 7522.
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> Congrats there. I guess the 75 has something to do with year 1975? I wonder if 22 is
> related to second month....February and the other digit 2 is regarding day with
> release date as such....February 02, 1975?
Oh gregf, you of all people should understand date codes as used on electronic devices: last two digits of the year and a week number. That's the 22nd week of 1975, so it would be 26-30 May assuming it was a weekday. 
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Re: Cinematronics Pong clone.
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#337202 - 02/25/15 04:00 PM
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>> > The date code stamped on the Cinematronics board is 7522.
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>> Congrats there. I guess the 75 has something to do with year 1975? I wonder if 22 is
>> related to second month....February and the other digit 2 is regarding day with
>> release date as such....February 02, 1975?
>Oh gregf, you of all people should understand date codes as used on electronic devices:
>last two digits of the year and a week number. That's the 22nd week of 1975, so it would
>be 26-30 May assuming it was a weekday.
I agree. It's better than my guess with this pcb.
I took up the wrong major back in my college years and not knowing emulation would be a future thing, I would have taken more hardware classes instead during that time. Oh well.
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Re: Cinematronics Pong clone...
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#337222 - 02/26/15 12:37 AM
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Re: Cinematronics Pong clone...
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#337240 - 02/26/15 07:19 AM
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> You are damned right there is very little info out there about this Pong clone!
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> - Stiletto
I know, right?!?!?!?!
Being Cinematronics, you would think there would be tons of info!!!!!!!
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Re: Cinematronics Pong clone...
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#337252 - 02/26/15 11:57 AM
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>> You are damned right there is very little info out there about this Pong clone!
>I know, right?!?!?!?! Being Cinematronics, you would think there would be tons of info
There might have been more info online if Cinematronics had money to have flyers printed for advertising the game. iirc it might have been Keith Smith indicating that Cinematronics had only advertised the game for vendors in backpage advertising sections of some of the coinop industry trade magazines.
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Re: Cinematronics Pong clone...
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#337443 - 03/04/15 09:14 PM
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> >> You are damned right there is very little info out there about this Pong clone!
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> > I know, right?!?!?!?! Being Cinematronics, you would think there would be tons of
> info
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> There might have been more info online if Cinematronics had money to have flyers
> printed for advertising the game. iirc it might have been Keith Smith indicating that
> Cinematronics had only advertised the game for vendors in backpage advertising
> sections of some of the coinop industry trade magazines.
SlyDC chimed in on our mailing list to say that it's a perfect gameplay duplicate (based on the YouTube video, I guess) of Slam or Challenge by Mirco. (Not sure how he could identify that, but I digress...)
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