1,000TH DEXTER BOARD SHIPS - Today, the 1,000th Dexter laserdisc replacement board is being shipped.  Released in 2016, developer Matt Ownby had no idea this many would be produced.  The expected demand was 50.  Dexter is a solid-state replacement for the laserdisc players in over two dozen arcade games.  The most popular pre-installed video package ordered by far has been the Dragon's Lair / Space Ace / Dragon's Lair II trilogy. (posted 24 May 2021)

NEW SPACE PIRATES ROMS HAVE MORE HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY - Andrea Turci and Fabrizio Beneforti have modified the original single-player 1.xx ROM version of Space Pirates to work with the more commonly found R6/R5 PAL chips on American Laser Games hardware.  The later 2.xx ROM version for R6/R5 PAL is a two-player variant that ALG produced by making compromises/reductions in the gameplay that are considered inferior.  The new ROM 1.4b gives the original uncut game program much wider compatibility. (posted 04 Mar 2021)

DRAGON'S LAIR JOINS THE ARCADE 1UP LINEUP - Arcade 1up has announced a Dragon's Lair home arcade cabinet that will play Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp, and Space Ace.  The product will use Digital Leisure's codebase.  Their photos of the cabinet are currently marked as "pending licensor approval" and also "smartphone not included".  The photos show a smartphone clipped into the scoreboard location to display that information.  A possible Space Ace graphical variant of the cabinet is also shown to gauge interest in the demand. (posted 16 Jan 2021)

CLIFF HANGER NOW AVAILABLE WITH THE MERLIN-DX MULTIGAME - Shaun Wood at LaserCon has added Cliff Hanger to the Dx firmware of the Merlin and Arthur boards.  With a Cliff Hanger video file added to the Dexter board in a Dx system, the game can now be selected from the Merlin/Arthur main menu. (posted 04 Oct 2020)

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