https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Other 2026-04-28T03:44:50Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.41.0 https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php?title=Other&diff=1670&oldid=prev 2008-04-08T09:08:13Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:08, 8 April 2008</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l27">Line 27:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 27:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Some Toaplan shooters (batsugun etc.)&#039;&#039;&#039; -  Need proper v25+ / v35+ cores, as they use the extra features..</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Some Toaplan shooters (batsugun etc.)&#039;&#039;&#039; -  Need proper v25+ / v35+ cores, as they use the extra features..</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* '''IREM . Match It 2''' - Decryption or CPU bugs.. gameplay logic is broken (sometimes tiles don't appear, if you undo too often it crashes)</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Suna8.c&#039;&#039;&#039; - Brick Zone, Spark Man, Star Fighter - Decryption / protection / banking errors...</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Suna8.c&#039;&#039;&#039; - Brick Zone, Spark Man, Star Fighter - Decryption / protection / banking errors...</div></td></tr> </table>

Robiza https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php?title=Other&diff=1593&oldid=prev 2008-02-04T22:37:23Z

<p>moved mpu4 stuff away</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 00:37, 5 February 2008</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l48">Line 48:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 48:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* '''MPU4 Video (Crystal Maze etc)''' - Skill based gambling games, Crystal Maze should be a nice game to support, also some quiz games.  Hardware is over-expanded fruit machine hardware.  8-bit CPU board, ton of timers, what looks like a discrete audio alarm tone, 6850 serial io etc. driving a 68k based expansion board with a video chip which would fit better on a c64.  It's VERY VERY fussy about everything, serial checks, timer checks, interrupt checks, protection chips (emulated bar the data scrambling). Code is compiled FORTH, with some small pieces of hand-written assembler, essentially unreadable. Current stopping point is either serial IO, or the Vid chip's IRQ handling, game gets stuck in a loop, displaying nothing on screen. There is a standalone emu, but it's very unstable, and loses CPU sync regularly - emulation was never optimised.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* '''MPU4 (Connect 4)''' - Just the 'basic' 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit. Needs elegant lamp/input timing solution, as lamp durations seem to be shorter than MAME screen updates, causing all sorts of weirdness.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td></tr> </table>

JamesWallace https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php?title=Other&diff=1308&oldid=prev 2007-10-11T12:00:44Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 14:00, 11 October 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l51">Line 51:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 51:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;MPU4 Video (Crystal Maze etc)&#039;&#039;&#039; - Skill based gambling games, Crystal Maze should be a nice game to support, also some quiz games.  Hardware is over-expanded fruit machine hardware.  8-bit CPU board, ton of timers, what looks like a discrete audio alarm tone, 6850 serial io etc. driving a 68k based expansion board with a video chip which would fit better on a c64.  It&#039;s VERY VERY fussy about everything, serial checks, timer checks, interrupt checks, protection chips (emulated bar the data scrambling). Code is compiled FORTH, with some small pieces of hand-written assembler, essentially unreadable. Current stopping point is either serial IO, or the Vid chip&#039;s IRQ handling, game gets stuck in a loop, displaying nothing on screen. There is a standalone emu, but it&#039;s very unstable, and loses CPU sync regularly - emulation was never optimised.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;MPU4 Video (Crystal Maze etc)&#039;&#039;&#039; - Skill based gambling games, Crystal Maze should be a nice game to support, also some quiz games.  Hardware is over-expanded fruit machine hardware.  8-bit CPU board, ton of timers, what looks like a discrete audio alarm tone, 6850 serial io etc. driving a 68k based expansion board with a video chip which would fit better on a c64.  It&#039;s VERY VERY fussy about everything, serial checks, timer checks, interrupt checks, protection chips (emulated bar the data scrambling). Code is compiled FORTH, with some small pieces of hand-written assembler, essentially unreadable. Current stopping point is either serial IO, or the Vid chip&#039;s IRQ handling, game gets stuck in a loop, displaying nothing on screen. There is a standalone emu, but it&#039;s very unstable, and loses CPU sync regularly - emulation was never optimised.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 (Connect 4)''' - Just the 'basic' 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit. Needs elegant lamp/input timing solution<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 (Connect 4)''' - Just the 'basic' 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit. Needs elegant lamp/input timing solution, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as lamp durations seem </ins>to be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shorter than MAME screen updates</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">causing all sorts </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weirdness</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* '''MPU4 (Deal 'Em)''' - Zenitone 6845-based video hardware (merlinmm/Wizz Quiz)</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with a (dumped) PAL helping </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">massage the new hardware into the existing 6809 setup. Should </del>be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">running in u3</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but inputs need a lot </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">work</del>.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td></tr> </table>

JamesWallace https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php?title=Other&diff=1307&oldid=prev 2007-10-05T08:21:16Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:21, 5 October 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l52">Line 52:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 52:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;MPU4 (Connect 4)&#039;&#039;&#039; - Just the &#039;basic&#039; 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit. Needs elegant lamp/input timing solution.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;MPU4 (Connect 4)&#039;&#039;&#039; - Just the &#039;basic&#039; 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit. Needs elegant lamp/input timing solution.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 (Deal 'Em)''' - Zenitone 6845-based video hardware (merlinmm/Wizz Quiz), with a (dumped) PAL helping to massage the new hardware into the existing 6809 setup. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Could do with PAL pinouts to finish this off</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as it seems to process all the video info</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 (Deal 'Em)''' - Zenitone 6845-based video hardware (merlinmm/Wizz Quiz), with a (dumped) PAL helping to massage the new hardware into the existing 6809 setup. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Should be running in u3</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but inputs need a lot of work</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td></tr> </table>

JamesWallace https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php?title=Other&diff=1206&oldid=prev 2007-06-22T08:17:09Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:17, 22 June 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l49">Line 49:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 49:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 Video (Crystal Maze etc)''' - Skill based gambling games, Crystal Maze should be a nice game to support, also some quiz games.  Hardware is over-expanded fruit machine hardware.  8-bit CPU board, ton of timers, what looks like a discrete audio alarm tone, 6850 serial io etc. driving a 68k based expansion board with a video chip which would fit better on a c64.  It's VERY VERY fussy about everything, serial checks, timer checks, interrupt checks, protection chips (emulated bar the data scrambling). Code is compiled FORTH, with some small pieces of hand-written assembler, essentially unreadable. Current stopping point is either serial IO, or the Vid chip's IRQ handling<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Timer emulation being rewritten by AGEMAME</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">seems to hang up generating multiple IRQs if set up correctly</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">some sort of filter/wire-OR? </del>There is a standalone emu, but it's very unstable, and loses CPU sync regularly - <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">possibly includes a lot of hacks to get the games running?</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 Video (Crystal Maze etc)''' - Skill based gambling games, Crystal Maze should be a nice game to support, also some quiz games.  Hardware is over-expanded fruit machine hardware.  8-bit CPU board, ton of timers, what looks like a discrete audio alarm tone, 6850 serial io etc. driving a 68k based expansion board with a video chip which would fit better on a c64.  It's VERY VERY fussy about everything, serial checks, timer checks, interrupt checks, protection chips (emulated bar the data scrambling). Code is compiled FORTH, with some small pieces of hand-written assembler, essentially unreadable. Current stopping point is either serial IO, or the Vid chip's IRQ handling, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game gets stuck in a loop</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">displaying nothing on screen. </ins>There is a standalone emu, but it's very unstable, and loses CPU sync regularly - <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">emulation was never optimised.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;MPU4 (Connect 4)&#039;&#039;&#039; - Just the &#039;basic&#039; 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit. Needs elegant lamp/input timing solution.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;MPU4 (Connect 4)&#039;&#039;&#039; - Just the &#039;basic&#039; 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit. Needs elegant lamp/input timing solution.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 (Deal 'Em)''' - <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Third-party </del>6845-based video hardware (merlinmm/Wizz Quiz), with a (dumped) PAL helping to massage the new hardware into the existing 6809 setup. Could do with PAL pinouts to finish this off.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 (Deal 'Em)''' - <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Zenitone </ins>6845-based video hardware (merlinmm/Wizz Quiz), with a (dumped) PAL helping to massage the new hardware into the existing 6809 setup. Could do with PAL pinouts to finish this off<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, as it seems to process all the video info</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td></tr> </table>

JamesWallace https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php?title=Other&diff=1084&oldid=prev 2007-05-22T09:43:01Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:43, 22 May 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l49">Line 49:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 49:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 Video (Crystal Maze etc)''' - Skill based gambling games, Crystal Maze should be a nice game to support, also some quiz games.  Hardware is over-expanded fruit machine hardware.  8-bit CPU board, ton of timers, what looks like a discrete audio alarm tone, 6850 serial io etc. driving a 68k based expansion board with a video chip which would fit better on a c64.  It's VERY VERY fussy about everything, serial checks, timer checks, interrupt checks, protection chips (emulated bar the data scrambling). Code is compiled FORTH, with some small pieces of hand-written assembler, essentially unreadable. Current stopping point is either serial IO, or the Vid chip's IRQ handling.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 Video (Crystal Maze etc)''' - Skill based gambling games, Crystal Maze should be a nice game to support, also some quiz games.  Hardware is over-expanded fruit machine hardware.  8-bit CPU board, ton of timers, what looks like a discrete audio alarm tone, 6850 serial io etc. driving a 68k based expansion board with a video chip which would fit better on a c64.  It's VERY VERY fussy about everything, serial checks, timer checks, interrupt checks, protection chips (emulated bar the data scrambling). Code is compiled FORTH, with some small pieces of hand-written assembler, essentially unreadable. Current stopping point is either serial IO, or the Vid chip's IRQ handling. Timer emulation being rewritten by AGEMAME, seems to hang up generating multiple IRQs if set up correctly, some sort of filter/wire-OR? There is a standalone emu, but it's very unstable, and loses CPU sync regularly - possibly includes a lot of hacks to get the games running?</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Timer emulation being rewritten by AGEMAME, seems to hang up generating multiple IRQs if set up correctly, some sort of filter/wire-OR?</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is a standalone emu, but it's very unstable, and loses CPU sync regularly - possibly includes a lot of hacks to get the games running?</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;MPU4 (Connect 4)&#039;&#039;&#039; - Just the &#039;basic&#039; 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit. Needs elegant lamp/input timing solution.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;MPU4 (Connect 4)&#039;&#039;&#039; - Just the &#039;basic&#039; 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit. Needs elegant lamp/input timing solution.</div></td></tr> </table>

JamesWallace https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php?title=Other&diff=1083&oldid=prev 2007-05-22T09:36:59Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:36, 22 May 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l49">Line 49:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 49:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 Video (Crystal Maze etc)''' - Skill based gambling games, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">crystal maze </del>should be a nice game to support, also some quiz games<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</del>.  Hardware is over-expanded fruit machine hardware.  8-bit CPU board, ton of timers, what looks like a discrete audio alarm tone, 6850 serial io etc. driving a 68k based expansion board with a video chip which would fit better on a c64.  It's VERY VERY fussy about everything, serial checks, timer checks, interrupt checks, protection chips (emulated bar the data scrambling). Code is compiled FORTH, with some small pieces of hand-written assembler, essentially unreadable. Current stopping point is either serial IO, or the Vid chip's IRQ handling.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 Video (Crystal Maze etc)''' - Skill based gambling games, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Crystal Maze </ins>should be a nice game to support, also some quiz games.  Hardware is over-expanded fruit machine hardware.  8-bit CPU board, ton of timers, what looks like a discrete audio alarm tone, 6850 serial io etc. driving a 68k based expansion board with a video chip which would fit better on a c64.  It's VERY VERY fussy about everything, serial checks, timer checks, interrupt checks, protection chips (emulated bar the data scrambling). Code is compiled FORTH, with some small pieces of hand-written assembler, essentially unreadable. Current stopping point is either serial IO, or the Vid chip's IRQ handling.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Timer emulation being rewritten by AGEMAME, seems to hang up generating multiple IRQs if set up correctly, some sort of filter/wire-OR?</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is a standalone emu, but it&#039;s very unstable, and loses CPU sync regularly - possibly includes a lot of hacks to get the games running?</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is a standalone emu, but it&#039;s very unstable, and loses CPU sync regularly - possibly includes a lot of hacks to get the games running?</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 (Connect 4)''' - Just the 'basic' 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 (Connect 4)''' - Just the 'basic' 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Needs elegant lamp/input timing solution</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 (Deal 'Em)''' - Third-party 6845-based video hardware (merlinmm/Wizz Quiz), with a (dumped) PAL helping to massage the new hardware into the existing 6809 setup.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 (Deal 'Em)''' - Third-party 6845-based video hardware (merlinmm/Wizz Quiz), with a (dumped) PAL helping to massage the new hardware into the existing 6809 setup<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Could do with PAL pinouts to finish this off</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td></tr> </table>

JamesWallace https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php?title=Other&diff=447&oldid=prev 2007-04-12T16:42:39Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:42, 12 April 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l45">Line 45:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 45:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Super Real Mahjong pt 6.&#039;&#039;&#039; - Video hardware makes no sense at all, evolution of ST-0016??  No obvious tiles, or gfx data..</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Super Real Mahjong pt 6.&#039;&#039;&#039; - Video hardware makes no sense at all, evolution of ST-0016??  No obvious tiles, or gfx data..</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Tatakae! Big Fighter''' - usual Nichibutsu <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">junk PLUS </del>an extra <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">67805 </del>MCU<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, probably needs trojans</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Tatakae! Big Fighter''' - usual <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weird </ins>Nichibutsu <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hardware plus </ins>an extra <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">8751 </ins>MCU.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td></tr> </table>

Guru https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php?title=Other&diff=271&oldid=prev 2007-02-26T11:14:44Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:14, 26 February 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l49">Line 49:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 49:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 Video (Crystal Maze etc)''' - Skill based gambling games, crystal maze should be a nice game to support, also some quiz games..  Hardware is over-expanded fruit machine hardware.  8-bit CPU board, ton of timers, what looks like a discrete audio alarm, serial io etc. driving a 68k based expansion board with a video chip which would fit better on a c64.  It's VERY VERY fussy about everything, serial checks, timer checks, interrupt checks, protection chips (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there's a flaw in the routines that means we can directly emulate most behaviour, but not any of </del>the data scrambling). Code is compiled FORTH, with some small pieces of hand-written assembler, essentially unreadable. There is a standalone emu, but it's very unstable, and loses CPU sync regularly - possibly includes a lot of hacks to get the games running? <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Presumably, there's enough in the driver in AGEMAME 40u1 to run the software, presuming the serial link could be fixed up.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 Video (Crystal Maze etc)''' - Skill based gambling games, crystal maze should be a nice game to support, also some quiz games..  Hardware is over-expanded fruit machine hardware.  8-bit CPU board, ton of timers, what looks like a discrete audio alarm <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tone</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6850 </ins>serial io etc. driving a 68k based expansion board with a video chip which would fit better on a c64.  It's VERY VERY fussy about everything, serial checks, timer checks, interrupt checks, protection chips (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">emulated bar </ins>the data scrambling). Code is compiled FORTH, with some small pieces of hand-written assembler, essentially unreadable. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Current stopping point is either serial IO, or the Vid chip's IRQ handling.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is a standalone emu, but it's very unstable, and loses CPU sync regularly - possibly includes a lot of hacks to get the games running?</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;MPU4 (Connect 4)&#039;&#039;&#039; - Just the &#039;basic&#039; 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;MPU4 (Connect 4)&#039;&#039;&#039; - Just the &#039;basic&#039; 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* '''MPU4 (Deal 'Em)''' - Third-party 6845-based video hardware (merlinmm/Wizz Quiz), with a (dumped) PAL helping to massage the new hardware into the existing 6809 setup.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td></tr> </table>

JamesWallace https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php?title=Other&diff=135&oldid=prev 2007-02-13T17:00:18Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:00, 13 February 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l49">Line 49:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 49:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Table Tennis Championship&#039;&#039;&#039; - V30 based, Banking issues, PIC for protection? or sound?</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. </del>Crystal Maze etc''' - Skill based gambling games, crystal maze should be a nice game to support, also some quiz games..  Hardware is over-expanded fruit machine hardware.  8-bit CPU board, ton of timers, what looks like a discrete audio alarm, serial io etc. driving a 68k based expansion board with a video chip which would fit better on a c64.  <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Code is compiled FORTH, with some small pieces of hand-written assembler, near unreadable, it</del>'s VERY VERY fussy about everything, serial checks, timer checks, interrupt checks, protection chips (there's a flaw in the routines that means we can directly emulate most behaviour, but not any of the data scrambling). <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>There is a standalone emu, but it's very unstable, and loses CPU sync regularly - possibly includes a lot of hacks to get the games running?</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''MPU4 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Video (</ins>Crystal Maze etc<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</ins>''' - Skill based gambling games, crystal maze should be a nice game to support, also some quiz games..  Hardware is over-expanded fruit machine hardware.  8-bit CPU board, ton of timers, what looks like a discrete audio alarm, serial io etc. driving a 68k based expansion board with a video chip which would fit better on a c64.  <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It</ins>'s VERY VERY fussy about everything, serial checks, timer checks, interrupt checks, protection chips (there's a flaw in the routines that means we can directly emulate most behaviour, but not any of the data scrambling). <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Code is compiled FORTH, with some small pieces of hand-written assembler, essentially unreadable. </ins>There is a standalone emu, but it's very unstable, and loses CPU sync regularly - possibly includes a lot of hacks to get the games running? <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Presumably, there's enough in the driver in AGEMAME 40u1 to run the software, presuming the serial link could be fixed up.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* '''MPU4 (Connect 4)''' - Just the 'basic' 6809 board, but uses that hardware to its limit.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;Nintendo Super System&#039;&#039;&#039; - Menu system makes no sense at all.</div></td></tr> </table>

JamesWallace