Motorola/Williams insignia question

[jerryjanis]

Can any of you guys explain to me the secret behind the Motorola insignia's similarity to the Williams insignia?


Williams

The truth is out there...

[Generic Eric]

Were motorola chips popular in the williams products?  er...no, can't explain it.

[Odonadon]

Someone has some 'splainin to do.

Odonadon

[skirge66]

The older Williams games
(Defender, Stargate, Robotron, Joust, Bubbles and Sinistar) have very
similar hardware inside. These machines have five PC boards:

CPU/Video- the main board, containing the CPU, RAM and video circuits

The game CPU is a Motorola 6809E. There are 24 4116 RAM chips, giving 48K
of DRAM, most of which is used for the video display (38K). There is also
a 1K by 4-bit CMOS SRAM that is battery-backed-up. This retains the game
configuration and high scores when the power is off.  The video circuit
allows for 16 colors on the screen at once out of a total palette of 256 colors.

also for what is worth motorolla also make a simulator with exact replicas of most williams classic games (no not close too...exact copies) forgot that link. but here's the link to the original quote at the top of this post

http://coinop.org/kb_dl.aspx/kb/gametech/williamshwdescription.html


is it just coincidence?

[Brax]

If you kick most Williams games really hard they phone a coffee shop in Iowa.......
If only it was another state this might have caught on. Sadly they had to form another company to enter into the wireless market.