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2022-07-19 22:16

chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11391

Release id #3683 : Classical Games 4 Player Interface

1997 as release date seems to be wrong - depending on what we actually call the release date. That is, so far we have only accepted hardware things, when they were actually "released" - as in: the schematic and everything else needed to build it is public. However that was not the case for this adapter in 1997, quite the contrary, it was sold with sanded ICs, which was supposed to make it hard to copy, so the adapter can serve as a dongle for Bombmania. Only much later the schematic was published by Protovision (not Classical Games, or even Knights of Bytes). That must have happened after 1999 - because when we made DXS & HIT 4-Player Joystick Adapter it was not available yet. Wayback Machine shows http://www.protovision-online.com/hardw/build4player.htm first time for july 2003 - which seems like a more reaonable date.

Maybe any of the involved parties is lurking and can shed some light on this? :)

2022-07-21 12:58

TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2268

I'm not involved with PTV or KOB.
Got no contact to KOB and briefly thought about directing JTR here but on 2nd thoughts, I don's see how PTV or KOB are supposed to contribute to anwering the more general question when it comes to _SCENE(!)_ hardware releases and release date, i.e. in a nutshell
a) when some original hardware is available
b) when schematics/eagles are made public
should -imho- be anwered with b) especially in this case where original stuff was rather branded in order to make rebuilding complicated. Besides, a) is quite irrelevant to Scene(!) Database, otherwise we would also need entries for EF3, TC64, 1541U2+ etc. (which would mainly be commercials without any eagles and construction manuals) There is one for EasyFlash but that one does contain schematics so it qualifies to be archived here.

2022-07-23 21:06

6R6

Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 245

Dreams Ik+ Gold from 2001 uses the cga adapter.
The disk comes with a seq info file on how to build it. It also states that the cga dudes are going to make it public.

2022-07-24 03:03

chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11391

Isnt it our info file on the disk? :) It came after our release at least.

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