Bringing Old Arcade Machines Into the Internet Age 95
An anonymous reader writes "To celebrate the opening of their hackerspace, Sprite_tm of SpritesMods hacked an old 1943 arcade machine to record its high scores, as well as post them on Twitter, via a newly added TCP/IP stack. The bus-tapping module he added to the machine lets him read the full contents of the Z80 logic board's memory, allowing him to store high scores for posterity as well as add an Ethernet interface. The device should work on any Z80-based machine, which makes it easy to add these same capabilities to any old arcade cabinet."
Re:Evidence of time travel? (Score:3, Informative)
I made the same assumption when I first read the summary.
Re:1943 wouldn't that be pinball? (Score:4, Informative)
I'm sure that they mean this game:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6769 [arcade-museum.com]
The Pinballs games with 1943 in the title were Victorious 1943 and World Series 1943 and I don't think either would be referred to as simply 1943.
For those of you not in the know of 1943... (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.arcade-gameover.com/1943.asp [arcade-gameover.com]
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6769 [arcade-museum.com]
And the obligitory wikilink...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943:_The_Battle_of_Midway [wikipedia.org]