From: wb9omc@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick)
Subject: Technical Manual
Keywords: proceeding
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date:  9 Sep 92 16:23:18 GMT


For those who have patiently waited for some news of the Lazertag (r)
Technical Manual I was working on, here is the news:

I am proceeding with it, with one caveat.  After searching for 
someone who has sufficient control of the bankruptcy proceedings
and thus might have authority to issue license to use registered trademarks
and copyrights, etc., I have found nobody.

That's right, nobody.  The one person who seemed to have some knowledge
of the situation is not in a position and the one direction he pointed
me in was, well, fruitless and possibly bullshit.

After obtaining some limited legal advice, I will shortly be obtaining
some forms to Copyright *my* work.  What happens after that, well....
who knows?

Current status of the project:  I have most of the Starbase (r) initial
drawings completed and am starting on the Starlyte Pro (r) initial
drawings.

I am planning on making the various sections as complete as I can
within *reasonable* bounds.  Without knowing the relative technical
skills of the readers, it will be partly a crap shoot in the sense of
not trying to confuse people.

Credit will be given to the several people who have contributed information
that will be included.

I still plan on asking for advance payment which I plan on limiting to
cost of duplicating, copying, binding, stapling, spindling, mutilating....
er, take out that mutilating part....  :-) and estimated shipping costs.

Most likely I will ship US Snail Mail....*they* might mutilate.  :-)

(I certainly hope not.)

This will NOT be a thing of great beauty.  IMHO, the distribution and
interest is limited enough that I can't see driving up the price
by doing anything excessively fancy to it.

What I currently plan to have it it:  Stuff related to the WOW Starlyte (r),
Starlyte Pro (r), Starbase (r), Starcap (r), Starsensor (r).  As of this
moment the Starlyte (r) info. is limited to the version with the green
PC board (the most common one) only, as I have not been able to obtain
one with the yellow single sided board that anyone will let me take apart.

Once again, if anyone has one that they are willing to sacrifice, perhaps
as a small cost, I'd like to discuss it.

Further stuff that I plan on including may include but possibly not
be limited to:  some possible modifications to both the Starlyte (r)
and Starlyte Pro (r), as well as general info. on the nature of the signal
itself.  

If I can get the silly landmine working in a reasonable fashion, I will
include this as well.

Stuff I do not plan on including: the Starhelmet (r), some drech on
some of the other marketed equipment.  Certain companies who shall
remain unnamed for now took a rather dim view of my requests for
information.  I will keep trying but I can't make any promises.

I will attempt to reproduce some of the original instruction sheets,
since there appear to be several folks who bought stuff used and never saw
these.  Most likely there is little in them that you haven't already
figured out....but, some folks have requested them.

I will post more as I have it.

Duane

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