Star Tech Journal

Issue: 1995-March - Vol 17 Issue 1

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March 1995
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Game does not hold settings. The
game may give free credits.
Williams/ Bally has upgraded the
troublesome ball trough optical
boards to a more reliable type.
They can be observed in World
Cup Soccer and newer games.
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part number is 137648-150.
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Can these be retrofitted into older
games like Star Trek and Indiana
Jones. It would be nice if they could
be offered to us at a reasonable
cost, if it's possible to do the up-
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Evan, STAR*TECHJournalfa.xed
your inquiry regarding upgrading
the troublesome ball trough opti-
cal boards to a more reliable type
(i.e. World Cup Soccer and newer
games). Mainly, the question was
"Can older games like Star Trek
and Indiana Jones be retro-fitted
with the newer assemblies. STJ
faxed this question to Williams
Tech Service Department.
Tom Cahill, Tech Svc Mgr, called
STJ and said that no retrofit would
be available from Williams. It's
not that it can't be done, but that
it would be a time-consuming, la-
bor-intensive project and there-
fore not worth the effort. So, the
bottom line is that there will be
no upgrade offered by Williams.
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1) If you're reading messages
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awaited improvement.)
2) No more of those annoying
"New, Forward, Backward", "first
message is nnn", and so-forth
prompts for those who just want
to log on, read the new messages,
and log off.
EAD automatically reads
new messages and jumps to
ext, uit, or to
continue and pauses after each.
ONTINUOUS also auto-
matically reads new messages, but
with no pause; for people who
want to capture the entire stream
on their hard drive and read
offline without using an offline
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scrolls up and down, allows
searches within the current area
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mented in the STAR*TECHjour-
nalBbs because it requires that the
caller's terminal emulation be set
a certain way: VTlO0 and ANSI.
Even though 99-44/100% of all
comm programs support this, the
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And since we're not 1000/o sure of
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-it 'should' just revert to a
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tion, but this thing is new and you
never know until it's been kicked
around by a few thousand varied
users. But, STAR*TECH journal
will eventually install this en-
hancement when it's safe to do
so.)
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