MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Cinematronics Pong clone......so envious here.

*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?