Hacked 1943 board - Persistent high score + Tweeting!

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Hacked 1943 board - Persistent high score + Tweeting!

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A guy at a hacker lab in the Netherlands interfaced with a 1943 board's Z80 to add persistent high score storage, on-screen messages and the ability to tweet new high scores. Check it out: http://spritesmods.com/?art=twitter1943

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(Note the text at the bottom of the screen)

You can see the twitter account it tweets to here: https://twitter.com/#!/tkkrlab
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Re: Hacked 1943 board - Persistent high score + Tweeting!

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Better than NESiCAxLive imo.
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I saw the second part of the thread title and somehow assumed it was an April Fools Thread that I had just noticed.

That's a pretty neat hack.
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That's pretty awesome!

I just got that board, mod looks a little over my head tho.
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That's awesome. It'll be interesting to see if this is adapted to any other arcade boards/systems.
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