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From: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rumor Mills Grinding...
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Date: Mon, 4-May-87 11:07:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  4 11:07:59 1987
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Organization: Atlanta University Center (Morehouse College)
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Keywords: arcade chip graphics sex :-)
Summary: Bally games will use the Amiga chips

In article <4069@j.cc.purdue.edu> doc@j.cc.purdue.edu (Craig Norborg) writes:
>    Well, once again, the rumor mill is grinding.  I have heard a rumor
>that a certain arcade game company (Bally?) has purchased the rights to
>the Amiga graphics chips as long as they have the rights to any games
>produced with these chips.  Can anyone confirm this?
     According to INFO magazine,  Bally has purchased the rights to use
"Amiga technology" in their arcade games.  Supposedly, a game has just recently
come onto the market from Bally which uses the Amiga chip set (you'll have to
buy the magazine to get the name.  I don't have mine on hand).  What did
Amiga get out of the deal?  They get the home/personal computer rights to all
of the games using the Amiga chip set.  Hopefully, this will result in home
versions of arcade games as good as (or better than) the original.
     Now, if only someone would make Amiga version of the older arcade games.
I'd LOVE to have a full version of Robotron (wasn't someone working on that
once?), Asteroids Deluxe or Millipedes.
>    Craig Norborg
>    PUCC Computing Center

[ And now, for something completely different ... a cute disclaimer. ]

Since I do not have any connections with Commodore (other than owning an Amiga,
and two Commodore 64's before it, and convincing several people to buy
Amigas and ... well, you get the point ) the above information is subject to
several abberations, like, for example, being completely wrong.

NO WARRANTY EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED

Rodney Ricks,
  Atlanta University Center Computation Center