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Behind The Bally Home Computer System (hackaday.com)
submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/retrocomputing
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[–] notptr 3 points 1 day ago

I found out about this system when I was looking up my hometown in alternative search engines. It looked like there was a scene for it.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Bally, like the pinball table company? They had a computer? :O

I wonder how well it could simulate pinball... 🤔

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

All things considered, pretty well!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Wow, that was way more impressive than I expected. Nice job, Bally people!

I can’t believe he didn’t know Wizard of Wor though.