AGEMAME HQ

…a video game running on MPU4 ;)

Seriously, CanonMan contacted me to talk about a game called Deal ‘Em. I’d always thought it came in only two different versions - a dedicated version on Summit Coin hardware, and a 2000 rebuild on the MPU4 Video platform. Not for the first time, I was wrong.

It turns out that Zenitone (of Merlin’s Money Maze fame) made an MPU4 conversion kit, designed for the early MPU4 machines. This took the form of a new gamecard, complete with graphics ROM, CRT controller (a 6845) and the associated logic - an entirely different system to the one Barcrest used later.

It’s not as powerful, having to rely on the original 6809 processor, but it is fairly simple. So simple, that a preliminary version of it will be in AGEMAME’s next release. There are no screenshots yet as I need to fix up the videoram, but there’s no obvious protection, so let’s see how far I can get before u2 comes out.

PS. AGEMAME32 will not be stopped permanently, it’s just that I ‘m waiting for MAME32 to be sorted out fully before attempting to remake it.