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From: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: True Multitasking, and some history lessons
Message-ID: <1306@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 12:19:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: crash.1306
Posted: Tue Jun 30 12:19:57 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jul-87 00:44:51 EDT
References: <8706040024.AA10895@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <163@sugar.UUCP> <2952@zen.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
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Summary: Arcade version of Space War was mfgd. by Cinematronics

In article <2952@zen.berkeley.edu> waterman@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (T.S. Alan Waterman) writes:
>One of the cooler memory-tight hacks on this machine was Space-War, an arcade-
>type game with a gravitational sun, in which you piloted the enterprise
>and a klingon ship around blowing each other up. This game, incidentally,
>eventually made it to the video arcade ( I don't remember who made it,
>though :-(  ). This is 4k, remember.

It was called "Space Wars", manufactured and sold by Cinematronics (now called
"Leeland Corp." I beleive) in El Cajon, CA.  This is the same company that
later made "Dragon's Lair", the first Laser Disk game.

By the way, this arcade version was done entirely in discrete hardware; no
CPU or memory as such.  It was just "bil-yuns and bil-yuns" of random TTL
chips, which drove a monochrome vector monitor.  I'm not sure whether I'm more
impressed by the 4K PDP-11 version or the hardware version.
-- 

Michael "Ford" Ditto				-=] Ford [=-
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