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Re: the true story of OFF LIMITS
« Reply #15 on: June 10, 2015, 11:26:54 PM »
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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Re: the true story of OFF LIMITS
« Reply #16 on: June 10, 2015, 11:54:55 PM »
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Re: the true story of OFF LIMITS
« Reply #17 on: June 11, 2015, 03:27:52 PM »
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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« Reply #18 on: June 11, 2015, 07:20:22 PM »
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.
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Re: the true story of OFF LIMITS
« Reply #19 on: June 15, 2015, 05:31:09 PM »
There you go...

http://www.zzzaccaria.com/photos_www/2014/OffLimits/IMG_4294.jpg
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Thanks. Yeah it looks all TTL, maybe a ROM? that's a big chip in the bottom right...

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Re: the true story of OFF LIMITS
« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2015, 10:34:42 AM »
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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Re: the true story of OFF LIMITS
« Reply #21 on: September 21, 2015, 05:42:37 PM »
...and hopefully that's a nice juicy schematic package that's with it ;)
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Re: the true story of OFF LIMITS
« Reply #22 on: October 14, 2015, 11:33:32 PM »
Looking forward to it.  :)

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Re: the true story of OFF LIMITS
« Reply #23 on: December 24, 2015, 01:31:09 PM »
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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« Reply #24 on: December 25, 2015, 03:41:10 AM »
Nice :)
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Re: the true story of OFF LIMITS
« Reply #25 on: December 22, 2016, 06:37:00 PM »
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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Re: the true story of OFF LIMITS
« Reply #26 on: December 22, 2016, 06:39:32 PM »
Ah, this first version has the game selector on the pcb. yes, the cabinet owner selected the game.

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Re: the true story of OFF LIMITS
« Reply #27 on: December 22, 2016, 07:35:38 PM »
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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Re: the true story of OFF LIMITS
« Reply #28 on: December 22, 2016, 07:37:10 PM »
THis is the cab where this model 3 is installed. in the 3rd pic there is the external selector

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Re: the true story of OFF LIMITS
« Reply #29 on: December 22, 2016, 08:22:50 PM »
Good detective work. Makes for an interesting read.

So what do the different game modes translate into?

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