Level42
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Just read this article on Atari Age: http://www.atariage.com/
This guy has access to the design (on tape reels !) of the custom Atari chips. It looks like all of them ! With that data (at least in theory) he should be able to get these chips produced again !
I'm a 8-bit Atari fan so I think this is fabulous news, but for our arcade hobby the best news is probably that this should make it possible to have brand-new POKEYs produced !
Although it seems that Pokeys are generally still possible to get (and they don't seem to die that often), I think there could be a good market for them. There are so many games that use it (and f.i. SW already has 4 of them) that it would be great to have freshly produced POKEYs around.
Here's a thread on AtariAge forum:http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/154479-new-gtia-chips/
I wonder if he also has data from any other Atari arcade custom chips ??
This guy has access to the design (on tape reels !) of the custom Atari chips. It looks like all of them ! With that data (at least in theory) he should be able to get these chips produced again !
I'm a 8-bit Atari fan so I think this is fabulous news, but for our arcade hobby the best news is probably that this should make it possible to have brand-new POKEYs produced !
Although it seems that Pokeys are generally still possible to get (and they don't seem to die that often), I think there could be a good market for them. There are so many games that use it (and f.i. SW already has 4 of them) that it would be great to have freshly produced POKEYs around.
Here's a thread on AtariAge forum:http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/154479-new-gtia-chips/
I wonder if he also has data from any other Atari arcade custom chips ??