Not usual Crystal Castles PCB

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Have you ever seen this Crystal castles PCB (Images are 600K)?

http://img22.echo.cx/img22/4254/ccpcb19te.jpg
http://img22.echo.cx/img22/6615/ccpcb20to.jpg

I've always seen the single board CC, this one is double with a 18 pin
connector.
It appears to be genuine Atari but there are a lot of differences with
the usual known.
There are two silkscreened codes: C2-00168-A and C2-00168-A

Any idea about it?

 

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<aminotti@gammaproinfo.it> wrote in message
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> Have you ever seen this Crystal castles PCB (Images are 600K)?
>
> http://img22.echo.cx/img22/4254/ccpcb19te.jpg
> http://img22.echo.cx/img22/6615/ccpcb20to.jpg

Weird! It kinda looks like a Crystal Castles board if Namco produced it...
That's really odd. Never seen that before...

-Clay

 

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Lol, looks like another likely candidate for the falcon pinout list.
Maybe Atari decided to save a step and make their own bootlegs.

 

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Reminds me of the 2 board sandwich style Indy Jones and Road Blasters
boards..

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"Clay Cowgill" <c.cowgill@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> <aminotti@gammaproinfo.it> wrote in message
> news:1119537151.654442.140440@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>> Have you ever seen this Crystal castles PCB (Images are 600K)?
>>
>> http://img22.echo.cx/img22/4254/ccpcb19te.jpg
>> http://img22.echo.cx/img22/6615/ccpcb20to.jpg
>
> Weird! It kinda looks like a Crystal Castles board if Namco produced
> it...
> That's really odd. Never seen that before...
>
> -Clay
>
>

 

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I wonder if some bootleggers tried to imprint the atari logo to sell a
"non-bootleg" looking bootleg. I would try and make it look official
ifIi had the ability to do so But i wouldn't bootleg in the first
place.

-isaac

 

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Vizilla wrote:
> I wonder if some bootleggers tried to imprint the atari logo to sell a
> "non-bootleg" looking bootleg.

I don't think it's a bootleg because it has many atari chips (audio
CO12294, vertical scroll 137321, trackball 137304) that were hard to
find for bootleggers.
Maybe a later/older serie, a prototype or what else?

P.S. The DIL20 chips with the stickers are pal (10L8,16L8), roms/proms
dumps are equal to the originals, pcb was found in Italy.

 

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more then likely a local variety made in Italy. They did a lot of pcb
manufacturer for other companies over there. Sidam made licensed copies of
Namco pcb's (better quality imho. I have a Sidam Galaga and it has been
bullet proof!!!)


<aminotti@gammaproinfo.it> wrote in message
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> Vizilla wrote:
> > I wonder if some bootleggers tried to imprint the atari logo to sell a
> > "non-bootleg" looking bootleg.
>
> I don't think it's a bootleg because it has many atari chips (audio
> CO12294, vertical scroll 137321, trackball 137304) that were hard to
> find for bootleggers.
> Maybe a later/older serie, a prototype or what else?
>
> P.S. The DIL20 chips with the stickers are pal (10L8,16L8), roms/proms
> dumps are equal to the originals, pcb was found in Italy.
>