Cosmic Guerilla

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Cosmic Guerilla

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Back when I did the Z80 based 'cosmic' games I planned to complete the set with Cosmic Guerilla.

This was a bit more work that I expected as the TMS9900 is not exactly a drop in replacement for the Z80.

Different memory access signals, ports are accessed using something called a CRU which I'd never heard about and doesn't even use the data bus.

Needs a little cleanup before checking in to ensure everything works and most of the random debug code is removed, but hopefully be added to the repository by next week.

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n.b. real board uses a TMS9980, which is basically a TMS9900 with 8 bit bus

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Super! Many thanks!

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Awesome job! I always love seeing these early arcade games being added to MiSTer.

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Indeed! What a great time to be alive :mrgreen:

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Great game, that also had (like many "Universal" cabs at the time) a great-looking arcade cabinet.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10707024@N04/50175736033

Looking forward to this.

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Wow what an awesome looking arcade cabinet!

When I was a kid I was constantly dreaming of having such a glorious cabinets line up in my bedroom :D

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Fantastic - I love this game

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Great game, played it a lot. How about the sound? Did you use samples or is the sound already digital?

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HerrBerzerk wrote: Tue Apr 04, 2023 11:53 am

Great game, played it a lot. How about the sound? Did you use samples or is the sound already digital?

All analogue so until I get my maths degree it's done using samples.

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macro wrote: Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:43 pm
HerrBerzerk wrote: Tue Apr 04, 2023 11:53 am

Great game, played it a lot. How about the sound? Did you use samples or is the sound already digital?

All analogue so until I get my maths degree it's done using samples.

Thanks a lot for the release of this new Arcade core!! :D

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Thanks Mike, just played this and it plays and sounds exactly how I remember it back in the 80's :D

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macro wrote: Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:43 pm

All analogue so until I get my maths degree it's done using samples.

Thank you. Better good samples than quirky sound errors like on so many cores.

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Slight update. Option to toggle blue background in colour mode.

I was in a retro arcade in Norwich last week and noticed that their cosmic guerilla cocktail had a blue background (as does the flyer for the cocktail)

The schematic does not show anything that would achieve this, but it would only need a resistor and a couple of wires, and most cosmic guerilla PCBs I have seen have loads of these added on!

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macro wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 10:19 am

Slight update. Option to toggle blue background in colour mode.

I was in a retro arcade in Norwich last week and noticed that their cosmic guerilla cocktail had a blue background (as does the flyer for the cocktail)

The schematic does not show anything that would achieve this, but it would only need a resistor and a couple of wires, and most cosmic guerilla PCBs I have seen have loads of these added on!

Thanks for the update, just looked at a cocktail on the web and must admit never realised the cocktail version had a blue background as I have only ever played the upright version in the arcades...great attention to detail Mike! ;)

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