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While I've been hard at work on new Taito and Toaplan games, Pramod Somashekar and spent the month of December working on #Midway's Z/Y/T-Unit core and another surprise core... This is NARC running off of RAW power straight from the FPGA without a pseudo framebuffer in memory. NARC is...

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