> > The only simulated Breakout that I know of came in the form of a PC game that Atari
> > promoted to Taco Bell awhile back.But it was called Super Breakout even thought it
> was
> > the Original.
>
> You'll have to settle with Super Breakout for now.
>
>
> > If MAME does decide on simulating TTL chips,I would like to see Breakout and the
> > original Tank.
>
>
> MAME currently does emulate some of the TTL chip hardware used with some games.
>
> As for emulating Tank, two hurdles specifically concerning Tank. The roms are a
> custom type rom and required someone (MAMEdev member?) visiting a university library
> (iirc) and getting a book from 1970s era in order to find out what the exact chip was
> that stores the game rom data so a specific adapter could be made to dump roms from a
> Tank pcb.
>
> I am pretty sure Tank rom(s) may have already been dumped a few times earlier by
> some of the repair shops in order to repair Tank cabs or cocktail tables. But that
> stuff probably isn't online these days compared to Naomi hardware titles.
>
> Besides the hurdle of dumping Tank rom(s), is the fact that Tank uses 2 pcbs while
> Fun Games' Tankers (a clone of Tank) uses 3 pcbs.
Really? But a Tanker is a pretty different thing to a Tank - I would have assumed it was an 18 wheeler clone or something - how daft!
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