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i picked this up and was told it was a training tool. no coin slot and looks like a computer was in it cool controller! what game would you convert this to? i found a thread from 2011 about it here but not much info. any info would be great.
 

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Thats an M1 Abrams gunnery station. Very cool!
 
googled darpa they make military training stuff

DARPA is part of the Department of Defense which develops technology for the military. They're probably most well-known for funding the research which led to the creation of the Internet.
 
It looks like the old military controls the atari yoke was supposedly designed on... Not sure if it was DARPA but if it was the controls are super heavy duty...

I read some guys made a vector game in the last few years using similar control yoke as well, forget the name but google remembers

If it was mine and i had the space i'd try to fix it up and make it functional, not convert it
 
Pretty cool. Just like the government. I can't tell if the darn thing helped or didn't but one thing was clear...they all enjoyed playing :)
 
I'd try to find a copy of the software and get it running.

There probably aren't any others left.

It would be a mistake to convert it to something else.
 
If the controls are not too heavy (hard to operate) that would be cool for a Star Wars emulator. Slap in a SVGA CRT monitor (or a 4:3 LCD) and use something like an Ultimarc A-Pac to interface the controller pots and buttons. Set it to free play or cover that hole with a panel and add a credit button. The trigger is the start button. This would otherwise leave the cabinet pretty much as-is.
 
I'd try to find a copy of the software and get it running.

There probably aren't any others left.

It would be a mistake to convert it to something else.
That'd be cool, though probably next to impossible to find... and the "game" probably sucks. Here's a doc on the predecessor "Battlesight": http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA178446 .

It would be interesting to know what kind of hardware they used. It says it's "computer-based" and used a medium resolution RGB monitor. But computer-based doesn't necessarily mean PC (especially in the late 80's timeframe)... could be custom hardware, or based on something like Hard Drivin' hardware (though that seems unlikely since it doesn't sound like NKH, Inc. was related to Atari... unlike the Bradley Trainer Battlezone mod that I believe they actually contracted Atari to work on).

DogP
 
i picked this up and was told it was a training tool. no coin slot and looks like a computer was in it cool controller! what game would you convert this to? i found a thread from 2011 about it here but not much info. any info would be great.

I've had one for going on 10 years now. It just sits in my shed...

I was going to make a MAME driver with it. I got it before I bought my first dedicated arcade cabinet...(edit: evidently right after)

I am guessing the thread you found was mine.

It's an ex-military flight sim cabinet. Yours is more complete (mine is just the shell essentially) and in nicer shape than mine.
 
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That's amazing you just happen to have one of these(!). That machine is totally rad.
 
That's amazing you just happen to have one of these(!). That machine is totally rad.

Actually, mine is just the shell, as I posted in the link above.

I wish mine was as nice as the Ops... I paid $25.00 for it and it still sits out in the shed. I think I have some of my lawn equipment in it.
 
That'd be cool, though probably next to impossible to find... and the "game" probably sucks. Here's a doc on the predecessor "Battlesight": http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA178446 .

It would be interesting to know what kind of hardware they used. It says it's "computer-based" and used a medium resolution RGB monitor. But computer-based doesn't necessarily mean PC (especially in the late 80's timeframe)... could be custom hardware, or based on something like Hard Drivin' hardware (though that seems unlikely since it doesn't sound like NKH, Inc. was related to Atari... unlike the Bradley Trainer Battlezone mod that I believe they actually contracted Atari to work on).

DogP

Yea, scrolling through the doc's it also said it used a laser disc player. Wonder if it had actual terrain with sprite targets super-imposed on it? I looked for footage on youtube, but couldn't find anything.

It you put DARPA in when you search for anything, you get back hundreds of weird conspiracy links to robotic bugs. lol
 
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