Dark Tower board game computer - any information?

[bitfixer]

Hi all,
It's been a while since I've been on this forum, and glad to be back!
Recently I was thinking about the board game 'Dark Tower' which I spent many hours playing in my youth.
At this point working Dark Tower units are becoming more rare and an idea for a new project occurred to me - creating an emulator for the tower.
Re-creations of the game exist in mobile app and desktop app form, but I'd like to see how feasible it would be to create a real emulator for the game's computer.
I haven't found much information about the actual specs on the DT computer, so I wanted to see if anyone knew anything about it or had any schematics/chip info/ROM dumps etc.
Thanks!
- Mike

 

[Al Kossow]

Hi all,
It's been a while since I've been on this forum, and glad to be back!
Recently I was thinking about the board game 'Dark Tower' which I spent many hours playing in my youth.
At this point working Dark Tower units are becoming more rare and an idea for a new project occurred to me - creating an emulator for the tower.

done already in MAME

 

[bitfixer]

done already in MAME

The MAME version is the 'Dark Tower' arcade game:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7525

I'm talking about the 'Dark Tower' board game from 1981 with the computerized tower at the center, completely different game:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Tower_(game)

 

[smp]

The Dark Tower game is available as a Java program here:

http://www.old-games.com/download/5186/dark-tower

I downloaded it, and at first glance it appears to be a faithful replication of the game. I have not yet really gotten into any serious game play with it, though.

smp