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Photon (arcade Cabinet)
Photon () is a Soviet arcade cabinet produced between the late 1980s and the early 1990s in Penza. Production The Photon arcade cabinet was produced in the late 1980s to early 1990s by the eponymous cooperative in Penza. Components were purchased from the plants of Voronezh, Saransk and Nizhny Novgorod. Machines were purchased from the manufacturer "Union" and the Ministry of Culture. The volume of production of automatic machines was up to 150 units per month. Games The Photon machine with a PC8000 () card has three games loaded on it. The game variants of the machine differ by a sign with instructions depending on the installed game. * Питон (''Python'') * Клад / Лабиринт (''Klad / Labyrinth'', ''Treasure / Labyrinth'') * Тетрис (''Tetris'') Versions of the games "Labyrinth" and "Treasure" also exist for the ordinary PC8000. The versions differ due to the lack of a coin acceptor and a time counter. The following sets of games are known for the ZX ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foton
Foton may refer to: * Foton (satellite), two series of Russian scientific satellite and reentry vehicle programs * Foton Motor, a Chinese commercial vehicle manufacturer based in Beijing * Foton Tornadoes, a women's volleyball team in the Philippines See also * * Futon A is a traditional Japanese style of bedding. A complete futon set consists of a and a . Both elements of a futon bedding set are pliable enough to be folded and stored away in a large during the day. This allows a room to serve as a bedro ..., the Japanese traditional style of bedding * Photon (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piezoelectric Speaker
A piezoelectric speaker (also known as a piezo bender due to its mode of operation, and sometimes colloquially called a "piezo", buzzer, crystal loudspeaker or beep speaker) is a loudspeaker that uses the piezoelectric effect for generating sound. The initial mechanical motion is created by applying a voltage to a piezoelectric material, and this motion is typically converted into audible sound using diaphragms and resonators. The prefix ''piezo-'' is Greek for 'press' or 'squeeze'. Compared to other speaker designs piezoelectric speakers are relatively easy to drive; for example they can be connected directly to Transistor–transistor logic, TTL outputs, although more complex drivers can give greater sound intensity. Typically they operate well in the range of 1-5 kHz and up to 100 kHz in ultrasound applications. Usage Piezoelectric speakers are frequently used to generate sound in digital electronics, digital quartz watches and other electronic devices, and are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goods Manufactured In The Soviet Union
In economics, goods are anything that is good, usually in the sense that it provides welfare or utility to someone.Alan V. Deardorff, 2006. ''Terms Of Trade: Glossary of International Economics'', World Scientific. Online version: Deardorffs' Glossary of International Economics"good" an Goods can be contrasted with bads, i.e. things that provide negative value for users, like chores or waste. A bad lowers a consumer's overall welfare. Economics focuses on the study of economic goods, i.e. goods that are scarce; in other words, producing the good requires expending effort or resources. Economic goods contrast with free goods such as air, for which there is an unlimited supply.Samuelson, P. Anthony., Samuelson, W. (1980). Economics. 11th ed. / New York: McGraw-Hill. Goods are the result of the Secondary sector of the economy which involves the transformation of raw materials or intermediate goods into goods. Utility and characteristics of goods The change in utility (pleasure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Brands
Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ... Brands Brands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Computing In The Soviet Union
The history of computing in the Soviet Union began in the late 1940s, when the country began to develop its Small Electronic Calculating Machine (MESM) at the Kiev Institute of Electrotechnology in Feofaniya. Initial ideological opposition to cybernetics in the Soviet Union was overcome by a Khrushchev era policy that encouraged computer production. By the early 1970s, the uncoordinated work of competing government ministries had left the Soviet computer industry in disarray. Due to lack of common standards for peripherals and lack of digital storage capacity the Soviet Union's technology significantly lagged behind the West's semiconductor industry. The Soviet government decided to abandon development of original computer designs and encouraged cloning of existing Western systems (e.g. the 1801 CPU series was scrapped in favor of the PDP-11 ISA by the early 1980s). Soviet industry was unable to mass-produce computers to acceptable quality standards and locally manufactu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcade System Boards
An arcade video game is an arcade game that takes player input from its controls, processes it through electrical or computerized components, and displays output to an electronic monitor or similar display. All arcade video games are coin-operated or accept other means of payment, housed in an arcade cabinet, and located in amusement arcades alongside other kinds of arcade games. Until the early 2000s, arcade video games were the largest and most technologically advanced segment of the video game industry. Early prototypical entries ''Galaxy Game'' and ''Computer Space'' in 1971 established the principle operations for arcade games, and Atari's ''Pong'' in 1972 is recognized as the first successful commercial arcade video game. Improvements in computer technology and gameplay design led to a golden age of arcade video games, the exact dates of which are debated but range from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. This golden age includes ''Space Invaders'', ''Pac-Man'', and ''Donk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Soviet Computer Systems
This is the list of Soviet computer systems. The Russian abbreviation EVM (ЭВМ), present in some of the names below, means "electronic computing machine" (). List of hardware The Russian abbreviation EVM (ЭВМ), present in some of the names below, means "electronic computing machine" (). Ministry of Radio Technology Computer systems from the Ministry of Radio Technology (Soviet Union), Ministry of Radio Technology: * Agat (computer), Agat (Агат) — Apple II clone * ES EVM (ЕС ЭВМ), IBM mainframe clone * ES PEVM (ЕС ПЭВМ), IBM PC compatible * M series (computer), M series — series of mainframes and mini-computers * Minsk family of computers, Minsk (Минск) * Poisk (computer), Poisk (:ru:Поиск (компьютер), Поиск) — IBM Personal Computer XT, IBM PC-XT clone * Setun (Сетунь) — unique balanced ternary computer. * Strela computer, Strela (Стрела) * Ural (computer), Ural (Урал) — mainframe series * Vector-06C (Век ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TIA-MC-1
The TIA-MC-1 () — Телевизионный Игровой Автомат Многокадровый Цветной (pronounced ''Televizionniy Igrovoi Automat Mnogokadrovyi Tcvetnoi''; meaning ''Video Game Machine – Multiframe Colour'') was a Soviet arcade machine with replaceable game programs and was one of the most famous arcade machines from the Soviet Union. The TIA-MC-1 was developed in Vinnytsia, Ukraine by the ''Ekstrema-Ukraina'' company in the mid-1980s under the leadership of V.B. Gerasimov. The machine was manufactured by the production association ''Terminal'' and some other factories. Games Some of the TIA-MC-1 based games are: * Автогонки (''Avtogonki'', Autoracing) * Биллиард (Billiard, a pool-like game) * Звёздный рыцарь (''Zvezdnyi Rytsar'', Star Knight) * Истребитель (''Istrebiteli'', Fighter Jet, Harrier) * Конёк-Горбунок (''Konek-Gorbunok'', The Humpbacked Horse by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov) * Ко ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emulator
In computing, an emulator is Computer hardware, hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the ''host'') to behave like another computer system (called the ''guest''). An emulator typically enables the host system to run software or use peripheral devices designed for the guest system. Emulation refers to the ability of a computer program in an electronic device to emulate (or imitate) another program or device. Many printer (computing), printers, for example, are designed to emulate Hewlett-Packard, HP LaserJet printers because a significant amount of software is written specifically for HP models. If a non-HP printer emulates an HP printer, any software designed for an actual HP printer will also function on the non-HP device, producing equivalent print results. Since at least the 1990s, many video game enthusiasts and hobbyists have used emulators to play classic arcade games from the 1980s using the games' original 1980s machine code and data, which is in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MAME
MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to emulate the hardware of arcade games, video game consoles, old computers and other systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. Its intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage video games from being lost or forgotten. It does this by emulating the inner workings of the emulated machines; the ability to actually play the video games is considered "a nice side effect". '' Joystiq'' has listed MAME as an application that every Windows and Mac gamer should have. The first public MAME release was by Nicola Salmoria on 5 February 1997. It now supports over 7,000 unique games and 10,000 actual ROM image sets, though not all of the games are playable. MESS, an emulator for many video game consoles and computer systems, based on the MAME core, was integrated into MAME in 2015. With OTVDM (WineVDM) a version of MAME is available to e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joystick
A joystick, sometimes called a flight stick, is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling. Also known as the control column, it is the principal control device in the cockpit of many civilian and military aircraft, either as a centre stick or side-stick. It has various switches to control functions of the aircraft controlled by the Pilot and First Officer of the flight. Joysticks are often used to control video games, and usually have push-buttons whose state can be read by the computer. A popular variation of the joystick used on modern video game consoles is the analog stick. Joysticks are also used for controlling machines such as cranes, trucks, underwater unmanned vehicles, wheelchairs, surveillance cameras, and Zero-turn mower, zero turning radius lawn mowers. Miniature finger-operated joysticks have been adopted as input devices for smaller electronic equipment such as mobile phones. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tape Recorder
An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage. In its present-day form, it records a fluctuating signal by moving the tape across a tape head that polarizes the magnetic domains in the tape in proportion to the audio signal. Tape-recording devices include the reel-to-reel tape deck and the cassette deck, which uses a cassette tape (format), cassette for storage. The use of magnetic tape for sound recording originated around 1930 in Germany as paper tape with oxide lacquered to it. Prior to the development of magnetic tape, magnetic wire recording, wire recorders had successfully demonstrated the concept of magnetic recording, but they never offered audio quality comparable to the other recording and broadcast standards of the time. This German invention was the start of a long string of innovations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
