MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Translation + personal opinion

During the military
> dictatorship import of anything was either forbidden or taxed so high that you would
> just forget about it. That's why we have all these funny old clone products here. Up
> until the late 80's there were no foreign cars, it was forbidden to import a car, in
> order to "protect the national economy" you were (and still are - the import taxes
> down here are sky high) supposed to buy Brazilian made stuff.
>
> Galactica was made by some random Brazilian programmer, working with what he had
> lying around. It's a mystery how they got these 8080 boards down here in the first
> place, it would have been illegal to import them from the US. Maybe Taito do Brasil
> imported them in pieces. I know they used to do that with engine parts from GM.
>
> The PCB stack seems to be cobbled together from leftovers from other 8080 games. The
> boardset is full of wire jumpers and other modifications and it's a wonder that it
> works at all. Fact is that the code is there in the ROMs to take advantage of the
> extra hardware when it's present - and I don't believe that they would have imported
> the parts, or spent the man hours, here in Brazil, as it was at the time, making it
> play that sound effect, if they were never going to sell it with that aux sound
> board. It just doesn't make sense.
>
> It seems to me that Galactica was developed to run on the Indian Battle boardset
> (using the same aux board that plays the three little indians tune) and if that
> wasn't available, it would run on whatever 8080 hardware that was.
>
> Imagine this scenario - what if Taito Do Brasil was somehow given..or got a great
> deal on a shitload of Indian Battle or other 8080 boardsets from Taito US or Taito
> Japan, arriving in a container along with pinball parts..or marked as "trash",
> because the game was not turning a profit? Maybe they set out to make their own hit
> game that could run on these surplus boards.
>
> S

Com certeza a Galactica foi DESENVOLVIDA para rodar no Hardware da Indian Battle.

Eu conversei com o SENHOR Que me vendeu as placas originais e o MESMO CONFIRMOU que são IGUAIS e que ADQUIRIA as PARTES em SEPARADO..O conjunto é formado por 3 camadas e a do "MEIO" é valida para TODAS 8080 da epoca!!

Era uma salada SÓ!!

Os custos ADICIONAIS para viabilizar O AUDIO EXTRA éra INVIAVEL, pois o projeto PREVIA a PLACA EXTRA QUE JÁ ESTAVA DISPONIVEL numa MAQUINA QUE NÃO FEZ SUCESSO NENHUM(a Indian Battle)

Para jogar a SPACE INVADERS NÂO ERA NECESSARIO absolutamente nada de COMPONENTES EXTRAS, ela "PURA" jogava-se o jogo COMPLETAMENTE real..

O Sune ACERTOU EM CHEIO!!!

O vendedor das minhas placas(hoje ele tem 65 anos) chegou a ter 34 MAQUINAS GALACTICA, sim, mais do que 30 maquinas!!

E só TEVE, ao longo dos anos, SOMENTE 6(seis) MAQUINAS INDIAN BATTLE!!!

Então está explicado o PORQUE QUE A MINHA PLACA ORIGINAL NÂO TOCA O SOM COMPLETO!!

A placa extra era como se fosse "OURO" e não poderia ESTAR EM TODAS AS MAQUINAS mesmo!!

Explico: A PLACA EXTRA SERVIA PARA UM MONTÃO DE OUTROS JOGOS FUNCIONAREM EM SEUS RESPECTIVOS AUDIOS(Invaders Revangers, serve como exemplo e assim por diante))

Eu transformei 4 conjuntos que ERAM DA SPACE INVADERS PARTll em Galactica.É bem MAIS FACIL e ECONOMICO basta cortar 3 pinos e jumpear outros 3...

Gostaria da AJUDA dos senhores para IDENTIFICAR como seria essa placa extra, EXPONDO ESTAS FOTOS ABAIXO!

O Grandmaster Derrick, o Guru, ou alguem que tenha ESTADO COM O HARDWARE da Indian Battle poderia me CONFIRMAR se são alguma DESTAS IMAGENS??

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