> Joe Magiera dumped a prototype of Halley's Comet. He also dumped an alt revision of
> Ikari Warriors but I don't have a pcb pic of it.
Halley's Comet is by far one of the weirdest designs Taito came up with
Actually I wonder if it really came from Taito, it sticks out like a sore thumb compared to every other piece of hardware they made.
I still wonder how Acho managed to figure half of that out, complex multi-layer blitter, hardware collisions, palette / transparency effects... in 1986. Emulation definitely isn't perfect, but it's a beast, I wonder if any of the video chips are actually CPUs themselves.
The driver is of course, also full of gross hacks, the way collisions are handled is especially scary.
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