The last few weeks have been amazing in the variety of rare (and I mean really rare, not EBay *RARE*) items that have been dropping into our Humble home.
First, I won an EBay auction for a very rare Bubbles boardset with Video Lottery ROMs. A GOOGLE search turned up 1 mention of this, in the Williams emulation driver for MAME. Even rarer, it included the hacked I/O board used to drive some hardware device that came with it (alas no mentions yet of what this device is or what it does).
Next, thanks to one of our very own KLOVers I picked up a second Mystic Marathon board set for a reasonable price.
Third, I found and won a Williams Aeroboto board on EBay (untested of course). I will need to build a wiring harness to test it out, but there were only about 200 of these kits made, so getting a board is very cool. To make it even cooler, there was an Aeroboto marquee on EBay as well. It turned out to be a sticker on top of a Stargate Marquee, but that was how they were packaged BITD.
And finally the coolest thing of all, it was either a Defender bootleg or a prototype that was never built. I hope to know more after I dump the ROMs.
The daughterboard has the ROM board, the I/O board and the Sound board circuity all smashed onto one board.
It doesn't have any William logos or copyrights on it, which is why I am thinking that it is a bootleg. The ROM board circuits only have the 4 LED's which is why I am thinking that it is a Defender setup. It is a later Defender because it has 2 video decoder ROMs on the motherboard.
So in the space of a couple of weeks, it's been raining rarities. Now I just need to spend some quality time getting them to run.
ken
First, I won an EBay auction for a very rare Bubbles boardset with Video Lottery ROMs. A GOOGLE search turned up 1 mention of this, in the Williams emulation driver for MAME. Even rarer, it included the hacked I/O board used to drive some hardware device that came with it (alas no mentions yet of what this device is or what it does).
Next, thanks to one of our very own KLOVers I picked up a second Mystic Marathon board set for a reasonable price.
Third, I found and won a Williams Aeroboto board on EBay (untested of course). I will need to build a wiring harness to test it out, but there were only about 200 of these kits made, so getting a board is very cool. To make it even cooler, there was an Aeroboto marquee on EBay as well. It turned out to be a sticker on top of a Stargate Marquee, but that was how they were packaged BITD.
And finally the coolest thing of all, it was either a Defender bootleg or a prototype that was never built. I hope to know more after I dump the ROMs.
The daughterboard has the ROM board, the I/O board and the Sound board circuity all smashed onto one board.
It doesn't have any William logos or copyrights on it, which is why I am thinking that it is a bootleg. The ROM board circuits only have the 4 LED's which is why I am thinking that it is a Defender setup. It is a later Defender because it has 2 video decoder ROMs on the motherboard.
So in the space of a couple of weeks, it's been raining rarities. Now I just need to spend some quality time getting them to run.
ken
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