MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: First fruits of the IT auction *edited again*

>First, a BIG THANK YOU!! to all who helped during the drive to acquire the Incredible
>Technologies protos & dev CDs. In no particular order, thanking the donors:

My thanks too.

>The first and foremost benefit is having access to the source so Aaron Giles can fill in
>or better document the inner workings of IT ITVIDEO42 ASIC (IE: the video chip used).

>So there's lots information to yet be disseminated, but there is one little 1-in-a-
>million bit of luck. As they clearly used World Class Bowling for the preliminary Shuffle
>Alley Tournament set, there was a zip file that contained the full source and release
>files for WCB.

>So yeah! It was all a great find for historical reasons as well as technical reasons.

>This is just the start of the many great things we able acquire! As MooglyGuy related
> here great things when the preservation community comes together as a whole!

>So please, sit back and patiently wait for rest of the items to be released. It might
>take some time for things to be fully digested, because we don't want to miss anything!

iirc from twisty's old cliche from 2008 or 2009: '...waiting to be steamrolled by cool things.' I believe that was it, but not certain.

It is great to know this achievement will pay multiple dividends over next several months.

Aaron's recent netlist related code work is for the analog audio sounds for some of the various vector games from Cinematronics. Star Castle and War of the Worlds fans can first celebrate since the work is starting in that area first.

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Created initial working netlist for Star Castle sound. Restructured Cinematronics audio code to create separate devices for each sound board to make it easier for forthcoming work. Currently needs a lot of optimization work before it's ready for master.
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For Cinematronic games, my favorite was Star Hawk. I always knew a Star Hawk cab was nearby because of one of the familiar sound effects Star Hawk generated during gameplay.

That will be great if and when Star Hawk audio gets netlist emulation treatment.

Edited by gregf (05/09/20 09:23 AM)