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Clay Cowgill multi-tempest adapter - AVAILABLE AGAIN

Hi I have a Clay Cowgill multi-tempest adapter I think I am going to sell.

I bought it around 2003 or so I think and has been in my tempest cabinet for many many years. This seem to be very hard to find. $425 shipped in the USA (shipping/ insurance/ pp fees included) this is the clay adapter ONLY (CPU daughter board and video daughter board) it does NOT include the Atari tempest PCB board.

This board has been modified slightly in that the wires you have to normally solder on to chips on the board, I instead installed 2 terminal header sockets, and 1 quick disconnect so you can instead solder 2 terminal pins on the board using existing vias and just plug all 3 wires in (the quick disconnect goes to the 6mhz test point that already exists). This makes it easier to install without damaging chips (and easier to un-install if you ever need to)

PM me directly if you are interested.
 

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Dammit! I'm offline for one night, and this happens....

Congrats to whoever got it. I've still got a dead kit, and need someone to dump a verified copy of the video ROM, to see if it's salvageable.
 
Meaning you have a dead kit also, or you're just pissed at missing this one?
Andrew, not pissed, but would like to pickup another kit. I had one in my Tempest cabaret, but obviously that was sold when I sold my Tempest cabaret.

Scott C.
 
VBREAKOUTs.GIF


:D
 
Great kit, vector breakout is a hoot ;) I also had one in my cabaret years ago. Grew attached to it, then had to let it go as part of a trade deal for another game. Haven't played it in years. Looking forward to it. I used to leave it on all weekend :). Thanks Brian!
 
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#@$@$@

I just plugged in back in to do a final test and take a video as I do everything I sell before I ship and of course I plugged the video board in backwards. @#$@$@

soon smelled the smell of hot plastic and felt the video rom burning up.
Game runs but the video is messed up. I will refund your money immediately, unless someone has a video ROM image they can share? luckily this is one of those removable ones. if anyone has an image I can reburn it I'd certainly appreciate it.

I could scream right now.
-brian
 
awesome I want to thank
Dave, Bill and Andrew all who jumped in to provide images and help on this.
I went to play hockey and returned to have multiple sources of info from which I discovered my original ROM image was ok, perhaps the chip was somehow stressed / damaged. but after pulling my chip and verifing the SHA1 chksums from the images others provided I was surpised to find it was the right image still.

I just burned the image provided on a new chip and re-installed and all is OK again!
thx again Dave, Bill and Andrew for your help

in case anyone else ever runs into this problem.
here's a image of the VROM https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQMpcsrCd4UWnVsYmlabVFmWTg/view?usp=sharing

if I understand this correctly it's just the images of the video roms for the different games but is not used for vector breakout or the menu code, so this should be straight Atari code.
 
This is available again the original buyer was able to fix theirs (bad vrom also) and although he has graciously offered to buy it still. We both agree it would be better to sell it t someone else who wants it or needs it.

So it's available again
 
Nice to see community going strong like this helping each other out! I'm sure this will sell tonight.
 
monthly bump. feel free to make an offer also, there was initially alot of interest in this but I think the two people that really wanted it ended up actually getting theirs fixed as I troubleshot this one after I fixed mine and shared the details with the guys with the same problem.

-brian
 
What does it play?

The Tempest Multigame is a hardware/software combination that allows all the "official" versions of Tempest (Rev. 1, Rev. 2, and Rev. 3) to be played on a single cabinet simply by selecting them from an onscreen menu system.
In addition to the "official" versions of the game, the Multigame includes two Tempest Prototypes-- "VORTEX" and "ALIENS"! Aliens is an early prototype of Tempest (very difficult). Vortex is very similar to "production" Tempest, but has the original Vortex title screen and logo.

Also included is the famous "hack" version of Tempest-- Tempest Tubes... and a "special bonus" written specifically for the MultiGame-- Vector Breakout. There's even an "Easter Egg" that unlocks "Vector Breakout Plus"!

 
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