Some great pictures of hard to find Astrocade hardware is here. Click any picture for a larger view.
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ASCII keyboard often used with Bally 300-Baud interface to create a keyboard for Bally BASIC. |
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AstroBASIC Audio Switchbox |
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AstroBASIC PCB showing the outside, component side and solder side of the cartridge. |
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Astrocade Kiosk - This was a dealers display cabinet, intended for small shops and
large department stores. |
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Bally / Astrocade - Various Bally and Astrocade versions of the console and accessories.
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Bally Arcade/Astrocade consoles displayed and played on vintage televisions. |
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Bally "Add-Under" PCB - These are photos of the Bally add-under bare PCB.
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Bally Check. Test hardware that plugs into the 50-pin connector on the back of an Astrocade. |
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Bally "Fun & Brains" Counter Display. |
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Bally BASIC Audio Interface (for saving and loading programs from cassette tape). |
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The Blue Ram expansion by Perkins Engineering. |
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The Blue Ram Keyboard for the Blue Ram expansion unit. |
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This is a "Speech Recognition System for the Computer Hobbyist." |
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Classic Console Development Platform in development by 8-Bit Domain in 2007. |
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Custom controllers built for the Bally/Astrcade/Astrocade. |
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Astrocade and Bally plastic dust covers. |
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The Astrocade EPROM burner for the Blue Ram. |
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Ward Shrake's fix to the Fawn Dungeon prototype cartridge. |
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Pictures of the prototype Hi-Res Astrocade created by Perkins Engineering in 1981. |
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Pictures of the Hi-Res Astrocade created by Michael Matte in the mid-1980s. |
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Analog controller used with the very rare ICBM Attack
cartridge by Spectre. Notice that this plugs into two controller ports. |
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The Lil' White Ram is a 32K memory expansion unit released in March of 2008. |
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Bally Multi-Cart Demo Unit. |
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Sea Wolf II Arcade Mainboard |
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The Bally Arcade (unreleased?) steering-wheel. |
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S-Video Modification for the Astrocade released in 2006 by 8-Bit Domain. |
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The Viper 1 RAM Expansion and Keyboard |
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The white Bally Arcade. |
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ZGrass Hardware - Pictures of ZGrass and UV-1 hardware. |
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Bally Arcade TV Switchbox
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Bally Motherload!
An excellent find (from a former employee)! There's some steering wheels in there (still in the package!), working extra
custom chips, and, and what's that? Some version of the Ballycheck hardware? |
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Brand New Bally Professional Arcade
This is the picture from the inside cover of the BPA Owner's Manual. This is what the
unit is supposed to look like straight out of the box! |
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ZIF Socket Cartridge
A homemade cartridge for use with an EPROM. Images supplied by Richard Degler.
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Michael White's ZIF-socket EPROM cartridge for 2K, 4K, and
8K ROMS. He's dubbed this the 'Bubba II' |