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(Update 24.
May 2018)
Major Havoc (Atari 1983)
[ Game
Info | Pictures
| Manuals/Datasheets
| Repair/Restore
| ROMs
| Reproductions/Spares
| Mixed
Stuff ]
NEW (5. December 2007)
Game
Info
Overview
- The "Adventures of Major Havoc" is a pretty rare Color
Vector
Game from Atari. The dedicated cabinet version is even rarer.
Description
- Major Havoc was one of the last successful Vector Games of Atari. It
was also the last one of the game designer Owen Rubin working for ATARI
before he moved on to Bally. After about one year of development, Mark
Cerny
joined the team to work on some ofthe higher levels and components. The
development time overall was about 18 months. Like many other XY games
the story was science fiction related. After the opening screen the
game start with a flight through a kind of tunnel like in TacScan,
whereafter the player needs to destroy some hostile spaceships. After
that the challenge is to land with your own spaceship on a reducing
platformum
in lunar lander stayle. Then the most challenging part of the game
starts by entering am underground maze to destroy the space station's
reactor. In a jump & run style the player is confronted with
oxygen
limitations, electric shocks, robot guards and artifical gravity which
makes it hard to land precisely where you want to. Luckily enough the
game has an ideal controller, a roller for left-right movement. With
that roller and two action buttons the gameplay is really good. Owners
of converted Tempests and Space Duels need to use a spinner controller
which is pretty good as well.
Cabinet
Types
- Major Havoc was released as an Upright in 1983. Shortly thereafter
coversion kits were sold for Tempest and for the SpaceDuel/BlackWidow/Gravitar
kind of
cabinets.
 PCB(s)
- The game PCB
is really large and positioned on the inner side of the rear door. The
PCB incorporates logic components like the two 6502A CPUs, ROMs, RAM,
the Analog Vector Generator, a quad POKEY chip for sound generation,
drivers for the XY Monitor, so all except the Voltage Regulators and
Sound Amplifier. The latter two are contained in Atari's well known Audio-Regulator
Board II
(also named AR2).
Monitor - The monitor used is an Amplifone
19" xy color
monitor. This monitor was said to be very unreliable due to the regular
breakdown of the High Voltage transformer. Being red in color, common
saying was, "Red is Dead". Fortunately enough there are Reproductions
available (as of
2007).
Clones/Bootlegs - not
known
Prototypes
- Tollian
Web, Alpha 1, Rex Havoc... gute Infos auf Game
Archive und Owen
Rubin's page
Other
Links
» Upright
Dedicated - [link]
» Monitor
Amplifone 19" - [link]
» Upright
Conversions from Tempest and Space Duel ....
Tempest
Space Duel
Manuals/Datasheets/Technical
Info
Major
Havoc - Dedicated
»
Service
Manual - [ link
]
»
Schematics
- [ link
]
»
Troubleshooting
inc.
Signature Analysis - [ link
]
» Amplifone
Monitor
Service Manual incl. Schematics - Manual
-
Waveforms of HV Unit
Major Havoc - Conversions
»
Documents
on arcarc.xmission.com... - [ link
]
» Documents
on
www.ionpool.net... - [ link
]
Major Havoc - all models
»
Datasheets
for
electronic components - to follow
 Repair
Tips
»
Amplifone
Color
Vector FAQ (Version 1.2) -
http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/tech/ampfaq_12.pdf
»
Restore Pages
»
Artwork
» Reproductions from Archer - Final Samples
ROMs
(EPROM/PROM) -
from www.ionpool.net
Roms are only
for restoring boards back to life, not to
use them on any emulator!!!
For the standard Version Rev. 3 und 2 you will need 7 EPROMs Type 27128
und 1 EPROM Type 2764.
» Major
Havoc Rev.
3 - [ link
]
» Major
Havoc Rev.
2 - [ link
]
»
Major
Havoc Prototype - [ link
]
»
Alpha
One (5 lives) - [ link
]
»
Alpha
One (3 lives) - [ link
]
»
Major
Havoc - Return to Vax - [ link
]
Reproductions/Spares/Improvements
Reproductions
- For Major Havoc you will find a couple of new reproductions released
in 2007, especially the roller controller by ram controls is worth
mentioning. Have a look in the "Link
Collection" section as well.
» Marquees
and
Control Panel Overlays at www.mamemarquees.com -
[ link
]
»
Marquees and Control Panel
Overlays by
Archer McLean (top
quality) - [ link
]
» Roller
Controller
(Whirly Gig) bei www.ram-controls.com - [ link
]
»
HV Unit
for Amplifone Monitor - arcadeshop.com (USA)
- cinelabs.com
(USA) - email Simon Hanlon (UK)
» AVG
(Analog
Vector
Generator) Chip - [ link ]
»
Cabinet (planned) ...
www.ram-controls.com - [ link
]
Spares
-
Generally have a look
at the "Link
Collection" section to
find sources. I can help out with single electronic items, if you don't
find them
elsewhere. A
non conclusive List is in the "Electronics
/ Parts"
section.
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