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Bradley Trainer Support in MAME 0.62

Posted by Hemos on from the train-on-the-big-boys dept.

TheAlchemist writes "The Bradley Trainer was a modification to Atari's Battlezone arcade game created for the US Army to help train personel in the use of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Supposedly only two of these machines were built, and of the two only one of them is known to exist today. The latest version of the arcade enumator MAME (0.62) has support for the Bradley Trainer, which hasn't been emulated until now. Pictures and more information of the Atari Bradley Trainer be found on this site, and screenshots of it running in MAME can be found here."

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  1. The Bradley by Dr_LHA · · Score: 3, Informative

    Would this be a trainer for the same Bradley who's development and general crapness was lampooned by this movie?

  2. Well, maybe not a kid... by OffTheRack · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.atasite.org/2002apr14.html

  3. The Bradley Fighting Vehicle by Chasing+Amy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sure, but they *wouldn't* like the Bradley if it had been constructed without the safety modifications mentioned in the film. Hot aluminum vapor filling the cabin when the tank gets fired upon isn't a good thing...

    Plus, it was originally designed as a fast troop transport and ended up a slower smaller tank after decades of bureaucracy and *billions* of dollars--a huge waste of resources at the taxpayers' expense. Remember the outcry against military cost overruns in the 80s? The Bradley was one of the big reasons. :-)

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  4. Dump Battlezone and use the XORs by yerricde · · Score: 2, Informative

    makes it tough to claim you have the original ROM.

    It was a wirewrap, with few if any consequential changes made to the ROM. The diffs from the Battlezone ROM to the Bradley Trainer ROM are a work of the United States government; thus, the XORs from Battlezone to Bradley Trainer are legal to redistribute. (All works created by the US government enter the public domain upon first publication.) If you have a Battlezone board, dump its ROMs and then use the XORs.

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  5. Real Experience by citking · · Score: 5, Informative
    I was in the Army for three years as a mechanized infantryman and can attest to the accuracy of the simulator. It really is very close to the real experience...except for sleeping in the hard driver's seat, driving 2 KM with the ramp in the down position, stalling, throwing track in the mud on a rainy day, spending 10 minutes fueling the beast, driving at night with an infrared display screen that looked like a big green blob...

    And you don't have a lieutenant four years younger than you yelling through the headset all the while.

    I miss the good ol' days! *sniff*

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    1. Re:Real Experience by lspd · · Score: 3, Informative

      I was Mech Infantry from 1996 to 2000 in the 1st Infantry Division. I've never seen this POS before. We used a UCOFT simulator (page 9) for regular gunnery training, and CCTT for company level training.

      Although I can't find anything on the net to back me up, if I remember right, the UCOFT ran on VAX/VMS. The graphics were about up to the level of bzFlag.

      CCTT is a fairly recent creation though. The graphics in CCTT are quite good, but the last time I got to play in one (1999) the AI was completely braindead. I believe the simulators in CCTT ran on Windows, but I never saw a BSOD to back this up.

      The TRUELY comical simulator was the MACS. This POS was a Nintendo light-gun built in the shape on of M-16 attached to a Commodore 64. My company still had these (though they were RARELY used) when I left in 2000.

  6. Re:roms by puto · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hey man, you didn;t hear it from me. But if you go to this link http://www.tombstones.org.uk you will find the info you need. It is a group of people who have a project to keep the roms alive. You can get all the mame roms on 10 cds for like 10-15 bucks, all verified and working. You have to find mame on your on. But you can get it off the site as well.

    I actuall ordered two sets. Paypaled money to two different people. Thinking that one would rip me off. And you know what? 7 days later they both came in the mail. It has been mame hell in my house since. 3200 working games.

    TheFlatline

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  7. Re:MAME needs to emulate this now by ActiveSX · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's really a job for MESS, MAME's emulate-everything-that's-not-an-arcade-machine sibling. Wait, maybe MAME should do it. Crap, a console that takes quarters? Damnit, now I'm confused.