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JONARD INDUSTRIES
CORP.
CONTACT BURNISHERS
The P.4 and P.6 are pocket-pen type burnisher/
cleaners for the communications, telephone,
and electronics industries. They are designed
for all type contacts: silver, platinum, gold,
palladium, tungsten, molybdenum, and all
other precious-metal contacts. The burnishers
are light, and the flexibility of the blades can
be adjusted by varying its depth in chuck.
The burnishers are non residual, leaving
no grit or dust on the contact. Their insulated
caps permit working on "live" contacts. They
have interchangeable blades made of stain-
less steel, with an abrasive coating of alumi·
num oxide that insures minimum contact wear.
The burnishers are5½ inches in length, 'Iii·
inch in diameter, and are available in two
types. The P.6 pen has 12 blades 3.16 inches
wide, 1 '¼ inches long, and .007 inch thick for
fine contacts and relays. The P.4 pen also has
12 blades, and is ¼-inch wide, 1 ¼ inches long,
and .007 inch thick for industrial contacts and
relays. Both are priced at $5.70 each. -
Jonard Industries Corp., Precision Tools
Division, Dept. ST J, 134 Marbledale Road,
Tuckahoe, NY 10707.
ATARI
FIREFOX PRDBRAM UPDATE
Atari is making available UPDATE FIREFOX
PROGRAMS to widen player base by stimu-
_ lating increased low-end as well as high-end
player action, which should impact earnings
potential in a significant way. The change
consists of three EPROMs on the main board
of the Firefox upright model and incorporates
the following key program enhancements:
• Simultaneous refueling to low-end players
for every plane hit on the 3,000-mile journey
and the second wave of the 6,000-mile
journey;
• More alerted scenes for high-end players
on the 9,000-mile journey or pro mission;
• Bonus points for achieving altered scenes;
• Addition of secret ground target indicators
(graphic cues as to where they are located);
• Absence of enemy missiles fired during the
first clip of the 3,000-mile journey to allow
more players to get further into the game;
• Additional statistics in self test.
Please contact your distributor to arrange
delivery of the UPDATE PROGRAM as well as
return of the original three EPROMs. Installa-
tion of the new EPROMs simply requires
changes at:
LOCATION
8 B/C
7 B/C MAIN BOARD
6 B/C
Finally, in order to make game play more
readily understandable to the beginning player,
a new "player instructions" sticker is being
shipped with each UPDATE PROGRAM to
place on the bottom of the monitor shield.
ATARI
INTROS ADVANCED BAME FDR HOME MARKET
The 7800 ProSystem, which will sell for about
$150, was unveiled recently in New York City,
and brings Atari home-video games as close
as they've ever been to coin-operated-game
quality. It offers better graphics than does any
home-video game machine or Atari home
computer.
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Using a new custom chip, Maria, the 7800
can generate 256 colors at once in 320· by
192-dot graphics. It also can generate more
than 100 moving objects of any size simul·
taneously.
Atari will ship the new machine this month.
"We're committed to revitalizing the home
video game business," says Joel S. Oberman,
Games Marketing Director. The company will
continue to sell two less powerful video-game
machines, the 5200 and 2600, he says. The
7800 plays all 2600 games without an adapter,
but does not play 5200 cartridges. (Atari will
offer an adapter that will let 5200 owners play
7800 games.)
All 7800 ProSystems will include the game
Pole Position II, initially on read-only memory
(ROM) cartridges. Later this year, it will be
built into the machine, so that when you turn
the 7800 on, the game will appear.
The other games to be sold when the 7 800
is shipped include Rescue on Fractalus! and
Bal/blazer, the two Lucasfilm games intro-
duced for other Atari hardware. Oberman
says the 7800 versions of these games will
have the best graphics.
Another original work for the 7800 will be
Desert Falcon, aZaxxon·like game that shows
off the enhanced graphics of the system.
Some games will be first-time translations
of coin-operated games to home systems.
They are Xevious, Galaga, Food Figh~ 3-D
Asteroids, and Robotron: 2084. Enhanced
versions of Ms. Pac-Man, Centipede, Dig Dug,
and Joust will also be available. Atari hasn't
announced prices for any 7800 software.
The 7800 also caters to arcade fanatics
with features such as the Hi-Score cartridge,
which lets users permanently store their high
scores for each level of difficulty in up to 65
games. Several games, such as 3-D Asteroids
and Centipede, let two players play at once,
either competitively or as a team.