Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: vernimark on March 22, 2015, 10:27:33 PM
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This is the OFF LIMITS cabinet.
a wall game made modifying the breakout PCB
this game has been made by TBM, a small company close to Bologna, then distributed by ZACCARIA
It seems that the original version hadn't the game selector, while the ZACCARIA version had the possibility to switch between 7 games.
the picture here attached come from a TBM cabinet and the manual is a ZACCARIA document.
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This is the logo of "TBM" company
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during the ENADA PRIMAVERA 2015 (the Italian amusement and gaming exhibition) I discovered that TBM still exists and presents its last SLOT MACHINES: OFF LIMITS!!
with a drung yoda as special guest haha
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thanks to Federico Croci (wiz) for the info and the cabinet he has
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Cool! Has the manual been scanned?
Paul.
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Nice cab :)
Is it complete inside?
I wonder if the Star Wars artwork has been licensed bitd.
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- I don't think the manual has been scanned, I'd like to do that
- no license at all obviously :)
- cabinet has no PCB at the moment
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Wow there's some blatant illegal use of SW art going on there......not that suprising for 30+ years ago but....today still..... :)
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yep. embarassing...
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Star Wars? Where? ;D
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Wow! is it yours? It is in perfect shape!! :spaceace:
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Wow! is it yours? It is in perfect shape!! :spaceace:
You didn't check Paul's 2014 archive! ;)
www.zzzaccaria.com
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These Star Wars pictures remind me the unlicensed vinyl I used to listen back in the days...like this one I still have ;D :arrow:
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Wow! is it yours? It is in perfect shape!! :spaceace:
You didn't check Paul's 2014 archive! ;)
www.zzzaccaria.com
Yep, I was just bragging ;)
I only picked it up and stored it at my place a while ago.
Great looking cab!
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Ugh, that rendition of Yoda is vomit inducing.
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Guys, so this is confirmed Breakout clone, so it does not use a CPU, correct? a PCB photo would be nice, thanks :)
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There you go...
(http://www.zzzaccaria.com/photos_www/2014/OffLimits/PV/IMG_4294.jpg)
http://www.zzzaccaria.com/photos_www/2014/OffLimits/IMG_4294.jpg (http://www.zzzaccaria.com/photos_www/2014/OffLimits/IMG_4294.jpg)
Paul.
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I'm looking for one of those boards....
I thought it was a breakout with a daughter board successively applied...
any code on it?
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It's not here with me, but there was an "upgrade" for the Atari game that has an extra board and a bunch of hacks to do the same thing but with less games IIRC. This one looks all-in-one. It looks all TTL.
Paul.
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There you go...
(http://www.zzzaccaria.com/photos_www/2014/OffLimits/PV/IMG_4294.jpg)
http://www.zzzaccaria.com/photos_www/2014/OffLimits/IMG_4294.jpg (http://www.zzzaccaria.com/photos_www/2014/OffLimits/IMG_4294.jpg)
Paul.
Thanks. Yeah it looks all TTL, maybe a ROM? that's a big chip in the bottom right...
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Thank you Paul for the pic. I forgot you already posted it.
So it seems to have an additional connector probably for the game selection. I've something similar somewhere...
Anyway as some of you already know Wiz (Fed Croci) found the Zaccaria's document package, I'll scan it soon.
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...and hopefully that's a nice juicy schematic package that's with it ;)
Thanks,
Paul.
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Looking forward to it. :)
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I have a couple of OFF LIMITS boards keeped from the hands of its inventor :) . Next year I'll proceed with the restoration
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Nice :)
Paul.
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More info:
OFF LIMITS boards "Early production" (more or less first hundred) are labeled O.P.M. as shown in the picture.
OPM is the name of a company owned by one of the TBM shareholder (the "M" of TBM) and means "Organizzazione Paolo Morisi" (Paolo Morisi Organization)
after this first hundred "OPM" has been omitted.
ANother OFF LIMIT version exists, named "SUPER OFF LIMITS"
Fausto Tabarroni (the "T" of TBM) gave me a SUPER OFF LIMITS MARQUEE but the board is somewhere in the old warehouse. One of the purposes for 2017 is to write down the story of OFF LIMITS and TBM (ZACCARIA project is continuing but very slowing because of the tons of docs and pics to consider)
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Ah, this first version has the game selector on the pcb. yes, the cabinet owner selected the game.
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Here you can see the model "3"
it has been modified in order to support the game selection directly by the player.
A connector has been mounted on the multiswitch
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THis is the cab where this model 3 is installed. in the 3rd pic there is the external selector
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Good detective work. Makes for an interesting read.
So what do the different game modes translate into?
Thanks.