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Released in 1980
Member Rating
Manufacturer:
Atari
Developer:
Atari
Distributor:
Atari
Mame ROM Info
centiped,
Centipede (revision 3)
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Display
Raster |
Orientation
Vertical |
Resolution
240 x 256 |
Colors
20, Color |
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Genre
Shooting
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Attributes
[no data]
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Controls
Trakball / Button(s)
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Size/Weight of Upright
71.0000
" x 26.7500" x 25.2500"
, 307.00lb.
Size/Weight of Mini
60.0000
" x 20.5000" x 30.7500"
, 220.00lb.
Size/Weight of Cocktail
26.5000
" x 28.2500" x 33.5000"
, 225.00lb.
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Game Summary
Gardening - shoot the insects in the mushroom patch
Hardware Info
M6502
cpu
@ 1.512 Mhz
Pokey
audio
@ 1.512 Mhz
Hardware Platform: Centipede hardware
Game Details
Classic - This game is unusual in that it was designed by a woman, Donna Bailey, and this has been suggested as one of the reasons for Centipede's distinctive pastel colour schemes. The aim is to shoot the centipedes before they reach the bottom of the mushroom patch
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"Maybe" Images
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Knowledge Base
Atari Trak Ball Basics for Centipede and Millipede
Submitted by Unknown
This post is intended to show the basic components of the Atari trak balls for Centipede and Millipede and what to replace to get one to roll like new again. The Atari Mini-TrakBall (Centipede) and Midi-TrakBall (Millipede) consist of 2 roller shafts, 1 idler shaft, 6 ball-bearings, 2 radial optical couplers, 2 encoding wheels, and a ball. The basic setup is shown below. Key: E - Encoder wheel is screwed on to end of shaft. B - Ball-bearing D - Detector Dio
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Centipede pinouts
Centipede Pinout and Switch Settings
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Early Atari documentation list
Submitted by Gregg Woodcock (woodcock@bnr.ca)
Here is a pretty complete list of documentation for Atari's early arcade video games. Note that "TM" stands for "Technical Manual" and "DP" stands for "Drawing Package [supplement]" which was later renamed to "SP" which stands for "Supplement Package". I am not sure what "CO" stands for but the "C" could be for "Correction" because most of the CO documents were errata or addendums to the manuals. In addition, most Atari games had "ST" documents which w
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/mill-2-centipede.conv.txt
youMillipede to Centipede wiring conversion.
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The connector listed below is the Centipede connector. The
corresponding Millipede connector location is listed in the
brackets. P20 goes to P20 and P19 to P19 unless otherwise
stated.
Game : Millipede/Centipede
-> denotes Cocktail
N.C. means No Connection
Wiring List for P20:
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GND
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LIST: Atari Games
ROMs Manuals Game Name -------------- --------- --------------------------------------- 422 Super Pong TM-001 Mazer Blazer TM-004 Gran Trak 20 TM-008 Qwak TM-010 Tank TM-011 Gran Trak 10 TM-019 Pursuit TM-021 Twin Racer TM-025 Anti-Aircraft TM-027 Jet Fighte
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/fix_ centipede.txt
From: "Matt J. McCullar" <mccullar@flash.net>
Subject: FIX: Centipede
Date: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 8:04 PM
One might think of this as more of a feature rather than a problem, I
don't know...
The problem was this: You could see the mushrooms and the scoreboard,
but nothing else on the playfield. You could hear the game being
played, you just couldn't see your shooter, the bullets, the centipedes,
or anything else that moves. All you could see was the mushrooms being
hit.
You might call th
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Arcade Game Cheats
--- 720 --- (Contributor: unknown) In the ramp section, levels 8, 9, and 10: holding down the kick and jump buttons simultanously on the lip of the ramp will boost your air. This trick only works when you're going the correct speed (usually your third or fourth jump), and only once (as far as I can tell) per ramp session per level. ----------- Afterburner ----------- (Contributor: Anthony D. Chen) key: S - start button V - vulcan cannon M - missle F - foot sensor (only on sit-down version) stag
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Addresses FAQ (North American) for rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
Created and maintained by Tony Jones (tony@rtd.com) $Revision: 1.3 $ $Date: 1997/12/24 18:35:05 $ Thanks to: Rick Schieve Greg Woodcock (obsolete component vendors) If you have additions, corrections and (especially) more precise information about the products each supplier offers, please send me e-mail -- thanks! Contents: 1a) Game Manufacturers 1b) Game Manufacturers no longer in business. 2) Informational sources 3) Auction houses 4a) Distributors (Coin-op/United S
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Centipede Memory Map
LOCATIONS OF INTEREST IN CENTIPEDE: 0400-07BF SCREEN RAM (8x8 TILES, 32x30 SCREEN) 07C0-07CF SPRITE IMAGE OFFSETS 07D0-07DF SPRITE HORIZONTAL OFFSETS 07E0-07EF SPRITE VERTICAL OFFSETS 07F0-07FF SPRITE COLOR OFFSETS 0800 OPTION SWITCH BANK 1 0801 OPTION SWITCH BANK 2 0C00 BIT 1-4 IS TRACKBALL HORIZONTAL BIT 5 IS SERVICE BIT 6 IS WATCHDOG (?) 0C01 BIT 1 IS 1P START BIT 2 IS 2P START BIT 3 IS P1 FIRE BIT 4 IS P2 FIRE BIT 5 IS SLAM, LEFT COIN, AND UTIL COIN BIT 6,7 (?)
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A Random Games-list
Game Name Manufacturer Year Pinout Class ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ V 005 Sega 1981 18 Wheeler Midway 1979 3D Bowling MED 1978 H 720 Degrees Atari Games 1986 800 Fathom USB 1982 H Aeroboto William
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FAQ: Conversion v1.1
COPYRIGHT 1994 REVISION NUMBER: 1.1 REVISION DATE: 02 November 1994 REVISION HISTORY: 1.1 (02/11/94 - Clarified technical details in {6.4}, Added a few words on manuals in {7.3} and analog controllers in {8.1.3}) REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (01/11/94 - First public release; FTP only) CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir THANX TO: Wayne Aiken, Graham Bisset, Duncan Brown, David Hanes, Tony Jones, John Keay, Patti Ozd
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/board pinouts/centipede.txt
Typed in by Jonathan Deitch (jdeitch@umiami.miami.edu)
Updated by John L. Cwikla (cwikla@wri.com)
9/10/95 T. Franklin Bowen (mjrhavoc@clark.net or tfbowen@ingr.com)
Added undocumented composite video sync and joystick pins
Game : Centipede
Note : * denotes an intverted signal
-> denotes Cocktail
N.C. means No Connection
@ means not documented
Wiring List for P20:
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GN
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Yet Another List
O-Taito is the Old Taito pinout on wiretap. N-Taito is the New-Taito pinout (Like Elevator Action). Quote by R. Schieve: "Taito.pin will match most for power, ground, monitor, and speaker connections but inputs are usually quite different." DECO/Data East is the Data East pinout. See Ring King.pin or KarateChamp.pin.I AtariV is Black Widow and Gravitar and Space Duel Konami if the Konami pinout. See Konami\Rush'n'Attack.pin. BZone is Battle Zone and Red Baron Tehkan games seem to follow th
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/centipede.txt
Centipede
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P20:
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GND | A | 1 | Ground
+ 5 V | B | 2 | + 5 V
+ 12 V | C | 3 | + 22 V DC
- 5 V | D | 4 | - 22 V DC
| E | 5 | Center Coin Counter
Left Coin Counter | F | 6 | Right Coin Counter
| H | 7 |
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/test_equipment/univid 1000/univid_harness.txt
From: jeff hendrix <jhendrix@quark.com>
To: "'vectorlist@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu'"
Subject: RE: Univid 1000
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 11:44:51 -0700
Here is a list of the harnesses and what boards they go to, I also might
have a few harnesses for trade.
UNIVID 1000 harness numbers
Atari
101 Arabian
102 Centipede
103 Cloak & Dagger
104 Crystal Castle
105 Dig Dug
106 Food-Fight
107 I-Robot
108 Kangaroo
109 Liberator
110 Millipede
111 Pole Position
111 Pole Position II
112 Xevious
Ce
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/board pinouts/quick-ref.txt
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/grav_to_blkwidow.txt
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| SWITCHABLE CONVERSION BETWEEN GRAVITAR AND BLACK WIDOW |
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COPYRIGHT 1993
REVISION NUMBER: 1.1 (first public release)
REVISION DATE: 17 March 1994
CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys
STANDARD DISCLAIMER:
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The author hereby grants permission to reproduce and distribute this
document for personal use, subject to the condition that the document
(along
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1.0) Conversion FAQ:
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COPYRIGHT 1994
REVISION NUMBER: 1.1
REVISION DATE: 02 November 1994
REVISION HISTORY: 1.1 (02/11/94 - Clarified technical details in {6.4},
Added a few words on manuals in {7.3}
and analog controllers in {8.1.3})
REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (01/11/94 - First public release; FTP only)
CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir
THANX TO: Wayne Aiken, Graham Bisset, Duncan Brown, David Hanes,
To
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax84.txt
Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1984 Jed Margolin
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From: KIM::SUTTLES 9-JAN-1984 11:40
To: @SYS$MAIL:COINOP
Subj: A neat trick with mail
For all of you who use the MAIL program as a form of
the "paperless office", I have discovered a bug (pronounced
"fea-ture") in same.
It seems that the addressee line (TO: ...) is parsed
independently of file handling. Mail looks at each item in
the list, and checks for a double colon (
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1985 Jed Margolin
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From: KIM::SHEPPERD 4-JAN-1985 17:20
To: @SYS$MAIL:JUNK.UAF
Subj: Printer in Rains's area
There is another printer hooked up now in the phone closet near Rains's office.
It's known as RAINS$PRINT and if you want it to be the default printer for you
then put the following in your LOGIN.COM file:
$ ASS 'f$log("RAINS$PRINT")' SYS$PRINT
The physical name is TXD5:, but I advise
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1988 Jed Margolin
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From: MIKE::LIEBSTER 4-JAN-1988 14:39:28.82
To: @SYS$MAIL:EVERYBODY
CC:
Subj: PAYMENT OF CONSULTANTS/CONTRACTORS
STARTING THIS YEAR WE WILL BE PAYING CONSULTANTS AND CONTRACTORS THROUGH
PAYROLL INSTEAD OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE. THIS WILL ALLOW US TO AUTOMATICALLY
KEEP TRACK AND GENERATE YEAR-END 1099 INFORMATION.
THIS WILL APPLY TO ALL CONTRACTORS OR COMPANIES THAT ARE NO
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