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Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes)
09/26/10 02:26 AM


> Galaxy Game runs on a PDP minicomputer hardware which does not have a standard CPU or
> rom chips. That will be very difficult for mame to emulate. MAME can only emulate
> games at cpu levels. This game was released before Pong came out. Don't expect this
> game to be emulated anytime soon since it will be extremely difficult emulate this
> without a standard CPU or rom chips. It may be months or years before this game will
> be added to mame.

This is incorrect. Unlike Pong, the PDP-11 minicomputer does use a CPU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11

Nothing about Galaxy Game would be as radically different from games already emulated in MAME as a transistor transistor logic game like Pong would be.







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* PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) R. Belmont 08/01/10 05:02 AM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) Moose  08/05/10 01:24 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) Pr3tty F1y  08/02/10 01:58 AM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) Fever  08/04/10 12:53 AM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) StilettoAdministrator  08/01/10 07:26 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) incog  08/01/10 01:28 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) gamerfan  09/26/10 12:28 AM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) ranger_lennier  09/26/10 02:26 AM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) jonwil  09/27/10 07:26 AM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) ranger_lennier  09/27/10 02:07 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) gamerfan  09/28/10 01:19 AM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) Quantum Leaper  09/28/10 12:32 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) Matty_  09/28/10 01:37 AM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) ranger_lennier  09/28/10 03:29 AM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) Quantum Leaper  09/28/10 12:45 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) CrapBoardSoftware  09/28/10 12:48 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) Vas Crabb  09/28/10 02:29 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) CrapBoardSoftware  09/28/10 02:32 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) ranger_lennier  09/28/10 05:28 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) Quantum Leaper  09/28/10 06:16 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) StilettoAdministrator  09/26/10 07:35 AM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) Phil Bennett  08/02/10 12:40 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) gamerfan  08/03/10 11:34 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) Renegade  08/02/10 10:05 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) SmitdoggAdministrator  08/02/10 05:06 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) Foxhack  08/02/10 08:23 PM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) HowardC  08/01/10 10:23 AM
. * Re: PhilWIP: The Last Starfighter and Air Race (prototypes) Anonymous  08/01/10 10:38 AM

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