What was Williams working on in 1982?

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I have a schematic dated 1982 from Williams. Lot's of analog and some digital. Wonder what they were working on?

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Maybe Predators?

http://www.retrokade.com/cabs/predators.htm

(quote from Rav's web page )
"I worked on that one as a Producer while I was at Williams/Bally/Midway. It started as a submission by a group from Seattle who had created an x/y colour vector hardware that could be linked together"

That's the only William's game i know of that has anything to do with an x-y monitor. Ken would know better than me, for sure :)

I hope Rav can get it put together, I'd finally have a good reason to go to England and (steal) visit his collection.
 
Maybe, but the dates don't seem to match up. I took some pics of the Predators stuff when I sorted through it. Looks at the date:

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Yeah the dates are way off, but Predators was tested as a raster game too. It seems like it went through a couple of development teams, maybe it took that long to get to a final product? totally guessing, but predators is the only wms game ive heard of with a vector connection.
 
It looks like that is from the vector system that was never released. The project died in 1983 when the programmer John Meissen (sp?) was laid off. It was a 68000 based system.

Where did you get that stuff?

ken
 
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