1978 Midway Clowns lives!

[P-Man]

hi all..

Fixed this pcb up over yesterday and today :

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWPILpJQuyQ"][MEDIA=youtube]yWPILpJQuyQ[/MEDIA][/url]

thought i'd share :)

no complaints about not being able to play it please, dont have the exact controls for it so ner :)

 

[Alpha1]

Very cool, is the game any good?

 

[cliff_poole]

Very cool !. I always liked Circus on the Atari 2600, surprisingly addictive.

 

[P-Man]

yeh its more commonly known as Circus by Exidy - or home versions were Circus by Atari

Its good fun as a skill game, like Breakout but with gravity. In the right cabinet its great fun, no good playing it on my rig, my analogue stick is too sensitive for the pot range it really needs.

 

[cliff_poole]

Yeah, you have to be totally zoned in right from the start or you get nowhere.

Is it just a ROM swap on an L shaped SI board then, or is there more to it than that ?.

 

[andyman]

Nice one Andy. Have some very fond memories of that game as a 10 year old kid. Kept thinking it was colour until I remembered I had the C64 cart.

 

[P-Man]

Midway 8080 pcbs all use moreorless the same motherboard (its the same from the softwares' eye view, but physically has about 10 versions) but the key is that each game uses a custom daughterboard, this contains all of the audio circuitry, but crucially it contains other hardware like shifter arrangements and also even more importanly, the input interface whcih is different on every game.

So in a word, no, you can't just romswap an SI

 

[Equites]

I've got one of these Taito Clowns PCB sets too, yet to get round to look at it though. Andys right of course, it does have a custom daughterboard.

 

[philmurr]

I remember playing a version of this on our school's Commodore Pet around 1979. Very addictive game.

Think I still have a tape of Pet games somewhere, just nothing to play them on !

 

[Milky]

Hi Andy, my Boot Hill uses the 8080 hardware. Can I ask what was the original fault with the circus board before you started?

Also, getting totally excited about SuperBug turning up

 

[virtvic]

When you die it sounds like a cat being abused...

 

[Belike]

Super cool, nice fix.

I also have this one on Philips Videopac.

 

[PaulSwan]

I want one of these but I've yet to see the cab or a Zac PCB for one...

http://www.zzzaccaria.com/images/Flyers/Circus.jpg

Paul.

 

[backflipper]

I have a midway clowns cab.
I listed it on ebay once but I pulled the listing after a day as I couldn't sell it.

Great game.

 

[Macro]

I want one of these but I've yet to see the cab or a Zac PCB for one...

I have a circus bootleg, not sure who made that mind you - will have to dig it out and look