The big win: Got hands on a WingWar twin in rather good condition for free. The problem: The unit's foot was submerged underwater for at least half a year.
The boardset, as well as power supply, amps etc. in the bottom are completely ruined.
Luckily the monitors AND the transformer still work. I've managed to hook the whole cab up to a PC using an A-PAC and a PAC-DRIVE. Some cheap car amp powers the speakers and the sub. I even hooked up the LEDs in MAME itself, which wasn't a big deal in the end.
Sadly, WingWar is rather boring while playing versus the CPU. So I am trying to emulate the comm board.
So far I dumped the ROM on the board (also took some steps into z80 disassembly) and fooled around with MAME itself. (blue screen - yahoo!)
Actually I don't really have a clue where to start right now. I can't dump the GAL/PAL on the comm board, and I don't have a working model 1 set to run trojans on.
I suppose someone with enough patience could hack up a rather simple emulation based on the v60 assembly. Sadly, that person is not me
Getting the two MAME instances to actually communicate with each other is yet another problem for some future point.
So the actual question is - Is there actualy anything I can do?
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