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{{Other uses|White Star (disambiguation)}} The '''WhiteStar Board System''' is an [[arcade system board]] used for several [[pinball]] games designed by [[Sega]] Pinball and their successor, [[Stern (gaming company)|Stern Pinball]], between 1995 and 2004. It is the successor to [[Data East]] Pinball / Sega Pinball's System 11-derived hardware, licensed from [[Williams (gaming company)|Williams]].<ref>''At the time when Data East started out in 1987, Williams was the industry leader of pinball. Hence Mr. Stern copied Williams. So closely, that Data East's system of pinball circuit boards resembled Williams' system at that time (System 11).'' -- [http://www.pinrepair.com/de/index1.htm#why Repairing Data East 1987 (Laser War) to Sega 1995 (Batman Forever)]. Received on August 11, 2007. </ref> 1995's [[Apollo 13 (pinball)|''Apollo 13'']] was the first game to use the WhiteStar System, and 2004's ''NASCAR'' (''Grand Prix'' outside the US) was the final game to use the WhiteStar System. It is succeeded by Stern's "S.A.M. System", which was first used in 2005's [[World Poker Tour (pinball)|''World Poker Tour'']]. ==Hardware revisions== In 2003, when ''[[The Lord of the Rings (pinball)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' was released, the WhiteStar's audio hardware underwent major changes. The [[Motorola 6809]] / [[BSMT2000]] sound system was changed to a 32-bit [[Atmel]] [[AT91SAM]] CPU with three [[Xilinx]] [[Field-programmable gate array|FPGA]]s. This adds [[hardware emulation]] of the 6809-BSMT2000 system for backwards-compatibility with previous WhiteStar-based games, as well as adding 16-bit ADPCM compression for the audio. The 16-bit audio is used from ''Lord of the Rings'' to ''NASCAR / Grand Prix''. This revised board is called the '''CPU / Sound Board II''' (or the ''CPU / Sound II Board'') in the official schematics. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.sternpinball.com/schematics.shtml Schematics for the WhiteStar System at SternPinball.com] [[Category:Arcade system boards]] [[Category:Sega hardware]] [[Category:Pinball platforms]] {{videogame-hardware-stub}}
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