Bally Alley

The Newsletter for Astrocade Users

April 6, 2002
- Added Mike White's inexpensive Astrocade memory upgrade project proposal from March 2002.

April 3, 2002
- Added four manual covers (thanks Rick!):
- Added Added two miscellaneous documents:
- Added Added four cartridge manuals:
- Added issue six to volume four of the Arcadian.

March 28, 2002
- Added Added to Machine Language docs:
- Added issues 4 and 5 to volume 4 of the Arcadian.

March 25, 2002
- Added Astrocade color palette table. Thanks Frank!
- Updated Blue Ram schematics.

March 17, 2002
- Added Machine language section with source for:
  - Table of Contents
  - Assembly header (equates and macros)
  - Onboard System ROM
  - Scribbling
  - Calculator
  - Checkmate
  - Gunfight

March 15, 2002
- Added keypad overlay for Music Maker.
- Added issues 1-3 to volume 4 of the Arcadian.
- Added six more Astrobugs newsletters.
- Added three volumes (a complete set?) of Niagara B.U.G. Bulletins.
- Will be using unordered lists for the 'What's New' page-- it looks neater.

August 20, 2001
- Many, many changes. Will list them all very soon. For now, look around.

June 15, 2001
- Added the first seven issues of the Arcadian volume five. That's another one-hundred-twenty pages, including BASIC and Machine Language articles/tutorials.
- I've also scanned in the remaining five issues of volume five; these will be arriving on this site in about a week. Other newsletters have been scanned in, but they need some serious cleanup work before I post them here. I have been getting asked questions that are answered in the pre-release of the Astrocade FAQ-- so I am going to be releasing that soon (version 2.8x). I worked with Rob Mitchell on this updated text-only version of the well known HTML Astrocade FAQ by Lance Squire.

May 14, 2001
- Added an article on the PD release of two Astrocade cartridges to the Bally Alley section.

May 13, 2001
- Added Arcadian, Volume 6, Issues 7-12 to the Astrocade page.

May 4, 2001 - Added three cartridge manuals Biorythm, Conan the Barbarian, and Soccer/Shoot Out. Three pieces of documentation Astrocade Product Description, R&L 64K RAM board , and Blue Ram Schematics have also been added.

April 6, 2001 - Added Arcadian, Volume 6, Issues 1-6 and Volume 7, Issue 4 to the Astrocade page.

March 5, 2001 - Added one ad, 2 Arcadian misc. articles, four misc. docs, three magazine articles. Also did some more reorganization behind the scenes.

March 4, 2001 - Added scans of eleven manual covers and four keypad overlays. Organized the Arcadian section and added three issues to volume 7

February 26, 2001 - Some visitors to Bally Alley have had questions regarding the PDF format. Well, one can view PDF files with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Others want to know why I chose the PDF format. Finally, some problems downloading PDF files does exist on this site. Read about the problem (and work-around) here.

February 24, 2001 - Added Cursor vol. 3 issues 2 and 3. That taps out my resources for Cursor and The BASIC Express. Do you have additional issues not posted here? Please contact me if you do.

February 22, 2001 - Added Cursor vol. 1 issues 4, 5, and 6. Also added docs for Blue Ram OS 1.O and Blue Ram Diagnostic to the Perkins Engineering page.

February 21, 2001 - Lots of changes and additions today. Added a new section with Astrocade advertisements and catalogs (ten items already added). Rearranged the picture page (making space for cartridge and cassette pictures). Added two pieces of documentation to the Perkins Engineering page. Added two buttons to the Bally Alley main page ( type-in programs and Astrocade advertisements and catalogs ). Added a Cursor newsletter page (four issues posted today).

February 18, 2001 - Added Arcadian, Volume 1, Issue 2 to the Astrocade page.

February 16, 2001 - Added Arcadian, Volume 1, Issue 1 to the Astrocade page.

February 15, 2001 - I have been granted permission from Robert Fabris to post issues of the Arcadian, so I have added an Arcadian button to the miscellaneous page. I posted five pages that were sent out before the first issue.

February 11, 2001 - Added Blue Ram Assembly Instructions Manual. Added two Astrocade links to the Links page.

February 10, 2001 - Added Blue Ram Keyboard Manual and Spectre Controller Documentation. Added the cartridge manuals that Rob Mitchell sent to me (thanks Rob!). Added seven Astrocade links to the Links page.

February 7, 2001 - Added article on the Bally cassette format. Added link for Astrocade Discussion Group at Yahoo Groups. Added "Classic Gaming" ads to the top of all pages as required by host.

November 10, 2000 - Added three more Astrocade manuals to the Miscellaneous page (See Bally On-Board ROM Subroutines, Home Video Burn-in Test (with source) and Bally Service Manual). Also added overheating warning to the title page (to alleviate poor Rob Mitchell's conscience).

November 5, 2000 - Added two more Astrocade manuals and a Z80 programmers sheet to the Miscellaneous page (See Nutting Manual (thanks to Frank Palazzo for scanning this in and Rob Mitchell for pointing it out), Z80 Programmer's Sheet, and Cursor's Bally System Description).

October 27, 2000 - Added more Astrocade related links (mostly related to Z80 assembly programming) to the Links page.

October 26, 2000 - Added some Astrocade links (patents and Virtual Astrocade) to the Links page. Also added the Peek n Poke Manual.

October 25, 2000 - Fixed some html errors that didn't allow Netscape users to view the files. Thanks to Lee Seitz for pointing the problem (and the fix) out to me.

October 22, 2000 - Completely revamped site. Site can now be reached at www.ballyalley.com as well. Added many new pieces of documentation. A Picture of the 16K Blue Ram and various pictures of the 16K Viper 1 are now online.