Circuit boards you'd love to see a new production run of

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Circuit boards you'd love to see a new production run of

I noticed someone is doing a production run on blank Quantum boards so I thought this might make an interesting topic, which is what rare PCBs would you love to see reproduced so people could build their own?

My fantasy list, not that I could afford them:

- Turbo Sub / would be expensive as hell, as it's a huge 5-board stack, awesome and super rare game though
- I, Robot
- Marble Madness / would be an issue finding slipstik security chips though
- Exidy boardset used for Teeter Torture/Venture/Pepper II/Hard Hat
- Sound boards for Spectar, Crash, and Side Trak as they use to logic boards of those above
- Omega Race / since they're all acid eaten
- Q*Bert / same as above
- Slither / also uses the same main PCB as Qix
 
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If I could find anything on ES's Bouncer I would make a PCB for it, seems like it would be a cool game.

There's a good chance it uses the same set as Turbo Sub too, god I wish the ROMs from that game would turn up, Ms Gorf might be a cool one to save from the ash bin too but being that it was never committed to hardware someone would have to actually invent a circuit to support the ROMs, and those haven't even been compiled from the code yet.
 
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Pole Position - redesigned for reliabilty

I did see alot of people in the past talk about wishing for a better PCB one that didn't have acid damage and was more reliable. I thought about looking into this, but I wasn't sure if people would really be happy to have a new one.

I don't even remember if I have seen what a pole position board looks like in 10 years of collecting.
 
I haven't really played the game myself, but I know a new run of the custom audio IC from X-Men would make a LOT of people happy.
 
Would be great to see more Third Strikes again, or at least a way to repair a USA cartridge after it's suicide.
 
I'd like to see the Qbert FPGA board released.

Also, I'm sure this would never happen, but a true multi-Taito FPGA board, with ALL of the classic games and maybe some of the ones after that.
 
I did see alot of people in the past talk about wishing for a better PCB one that didn't have acid damage and was more reliable. I thought about looking into this, but I wasn't sure if people would really be happy to have a new one.
One of the forum members is in the process of making a fpga clone board:
http://ppclone.blogspot.com/

I think it would be difficult/expensive to repro the original pole position pcb's, you'd have to do 2 rather large boards (plus the interconnect pcb)
And I would think it would still have the same issues as the original boards?

I don't even remember if I have seen what a pole position board looks like in 10 years of collecting.


http://webpages.charter.net/kentmurphy/images/poleposition/boards.jpg
 
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I'm not a huge fan of reproducing boards as they were ... personally I prefer the JROK method, using modern components, FPGA designs and making improvements while keeping true to the original design. Using DIP logic circuits isn't really sustainable anymore.

I would like to have the following boards re-designed / consolidated using modern technology:

Berzerk / Frenzy - Way way too many cables, acid damage kills ZPUs
Gorf / WoW - What a pile of crap... with custom ICs that fail
Star Wars - Way way to big.
Pole Position - We all know whats wrong with that mess.
Missile Command - Just because I love it!
Omega Race - Another known pile.
 
My take, the boards for Zoo Keeper and Qix. Rarely you find a working set of boards, and they are expensive as all get out. Plus the PCB's work for both games.

Seriously, why are these boards always broken?
 
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