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AlO, A13-A15 Address bits on Microprocessor Address Bus lines AlO and A13-A15 are generated by Microprocessor C2. Bits on lines A13-A15, together with those on AB11-AB12, are the input bits to Address Decoders Ri-R2. AlO is exclusive-ORed with BANK SEL by gate B6 to produce the AlO input bit for Random-Access Memory NIP1. ABOAB12 Address bits on Buffered Microprocessor Address Bus lines ABO-AB12 are software-generated by Microprocessor C2 and buffered by Bi and Ci. These signals are the Input bits to Read-O
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ENORM The active low-level Normalization Flag: is software-generated by gate K4 of the Normalization Flag circuit. If OPO is high, SA is high, and the output from gate J5 is high, ENORM is set low when STROBEO goes high. ENORM is applied through gate E7 to the Si input pins of Vector Data Shifters A8, B8, GB, F8, H8, and J8. ENORM multiples the rate of change of the X and Y vector data in the Vector Data Shifters (via shift left operations) at the same factor specified by data on lines DVY8-DVY1O. The n num
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PLAYER 1 LED The Player 1 LED On signal is developed from the data bit on line DB4. When clocked by LATCH, latch R9 of the Coin Door and Control Panel Output circuit latches the data bit on line DB4 to pin 19 of R9. This signal is applied through R103 to light the Player 1 LED on the game Control Panel. PLAYER 2 LED The Player 2 LED On signal is developed from the data bit on line DB5. When clocked by LATCH, latch R9 of the Coin Door and Control Panel Output circuit latches the data bit on DB5 to pin 16 of
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ST3 State signal ST3 is an active high-level signal hardware-generated by Decoder Disable latch A7. ST3 is opposite in state to VGCK, and is delayed by one pulse of the 12-MHz clock signal if the 04 output from State Machine ROM N4 Is low and VMEM is high If the 04 output from N4 is high ST3 is high When ST3 is high, State Machine decoder H7 is disabled. When ST3 is low, H7 decodes the data on lines STO-ST2 to produce LATCHO.LATCH3 and STROBEO-STROBE3. VCTR, VCTR The Vector Flag signals are software-generat
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X. WIRING AND SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS, PARTS LISTS REFERENCE DESCRP1ION Al A2 Si 58. A9. Ala SI 83 04 85 86 81 . 89, RIO 811. 812. 814 C3 C4 CS Ca Cl C8-9 Cl-Il 03-34 DI 02, 03. D4. 05. Do. D7, . 09, DI0 DII 012 D13 DI S 016 DI? EI-2. E2-3. E4 ES E6 £7 £8. E9-IO ElO-Il E1I-12 EU E15 E16 El? FS Fe F15 F16 Al 61. 62.61 64. 65 66 LOGIC BOARD ASSY. (Al), PARTS LIST (CONT.) 109k Board Assy. 8284 OX iwr 74(302 Quad 2-inp4it NOW gate 74161 5)qxhrtus 4-tEt Counter 7415377 Octal 0 Flip Flop 8088 CRJ 7415373 Octal D-tpe f
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Converting Schematics to an Emulator V1.2
Original URL: http://atarihq.com/danb/files/zarzon.txt Converting Schematics to an Emulator V1.2 by Daniel Boris (dboris@erols.com) 5/9/98 Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Zarzon Hardware 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Processor 2.3 Memory Map 2.4 Roms 3.0 Video Section 3.1 Video RAM 3.2 CRT controller 3.3 Video Shifter 3.4 Color Selector 3.5 Putting all together 4.0 Sound (to be added later) Appendix 1: Converting Binary to Hex 1.0 Introduction The purpose of
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THE HISTORY OF CINEMATRONICS AND A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR VECTOR GAMES
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COPYRIGHT 1994, 1995
REVISION NUMBER: 2.0
REVISION DATE: 23 December 1994
REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (02/11/92 - First attempt at listing and ordering
all Cinematronics games.)
REVISION HISTORY: 2.0 (12/23/94 - Rearranged sections, added new sections
for Barrier, Speed Freak, Boxing Bugs,
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Ghosts 'N Goblins Story and How-to-play
Submitted by Martin Hobt (mjh@mmsb.harz.de)
"The princess of a certain peaceful country is abducted by a messenger from hades and a knight who loves the princess leaves for hades to rescue her.
However, to rescue the princess, the knight must pass through six gates guarded by satan's generals to reach hades. Of course there are also demons that attack the knight between the six gates. The knight has five kinds of weapons which he uses skillfully to d
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Technical Information
Note: The information and links on this page might get moved around quite a bit before things get all sorted out. I'm just going to start putting up all kinds of information that I've had archived away, so please pardon the mess! :)
Identifying Unknown Board Sets Back in 1994, Rick Schieve wrote an article about how to identify unknown boards. This article gives some quick tips on how to figure out what the pinouts are for an unknown PCB. The text is moderately technical so if you're not sure what R
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| SWITCHABLE CONVERSION BETWEEN ROBOTRON, JOUST, AND STARGATE |
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COPYRIGHT 1994
REVISION NUMBER: 1.1 (Minor bug fix: Line 976 now shows the
correct "Y7-X8" connection, not the bogus
"Y7-X7" connection from 1.0)
REVISION DATE: 20 Oct 1994
CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys
STANDARD DISCLAIMER:
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The author hereby grants permission to rep
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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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N 0 II’ C, Z8430 Z80® CTC Counter! Tinier Circuit Product Zilog Specification March 1981 Featur.s I Four independently programmable I Selectable positive or negative trigger counter/timer channels, each with a initiates timer operation. readable downcounter and a selectable I Standard Z-80 Family daisy-chain interrupt 16 or 256 prescaler. Downcounters are structure provides fully vectored, prioritized reloaded automatically at zero count. interrupts without external logic. The CTC • Three channels have Zero
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generator and it is enabled when its J pin (2) receives a logic 1. The FF is clocked by vertical sync signal V16. The rising edge of V16 will bring the Q output (pin 6) of 3E to logic 1. This level is inverted by open collector inverter 2D (pins 1,2,3), and asserts the NMI* line to the processor. The processor will now jump to location 0066 and execute the NMI routine stored there. The jump to 0066 is an inherent hardware feature of the Z—80. The Q* output of the flip flop 3E is delayed by R16 and C5 and th
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Atari Analog Vector Generator Instruction Set
Compiled from Atari schematics and specifications Eric Smith 7/2/92 --------------------------------------------- NOTE: The vector generator is little-endian. The instructions are 16 bit words, which need to be stored with the least significant byte in the lower (even) address. They are shown here with the MSB on the left. The stack allows four levels of subroutine calls in the TTL version, but only three levels in the gate array version. inst bit pattern description
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Programming the Atari XY Vector Generator
The information in this document is not guaranteed to be accurate, use at your own risk. The Atari Analogue Vector Generator (or AVG) is the circuitry used to draw lines on the special XY monitors of some games from the late seventies and early eighties. These include Asteroids, Battlezone, Tempest, Gravitar and Star Wars, all of which used a slightly different AVG as the games evolved. The AVG is a small computer in its own right, it has its own ROM, RAM, instruction set and stack for subro
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HEAVY BARREL complete strategy guide
Submitted by Julius Yang
A somewhat obscure game, Heavy Barrel uses the same controls as Ikari Warriors, but is a better game IMHO due to the availability of different weapons, not just augmented versions of weapons.
The objective is to wipe out a military complex filled with soldiers and lethal military equipment. The available weapons are the standard machine gun, the heavy machine gun, the fan gun, the flamethrower, and the Heavy Barrel. Grenade weapons include standard grenades, red grenades,
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LIST: JAMMA Games
H '88 Games Konami 1988 JAMMA 1941 Capcom 1990 JAMMA V 1943: The Battle of Midway Capcom 1988 JAMMA H 3 Wonders Capcom 1991 JAMMA H 9 Ball Shoot Out Bundra JAMMA V Aero Fighters McO'River 1992 JAMMA H Air Buster Namcoi/Kaneko 1990 JAMMA V Ajax
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Typed in by: John Fredin (fredin@cig.mot.com)
Gate of Doom
Data East, 1990
Gate of Doom
Option Switch Settings
dipswitch 1
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| | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
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| game charge | 1 coin = 1 credit| off off off off |
| (right)
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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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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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Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
From: rls@intgp8.ih.att.com (-Schieve,R.L.)
Subject: Re: how do you find the +5,+12,-5 voltages on a board, don't
have pinouts?
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 18:20:21 GMT
In article <5i2SznW.bubsy@delphi.com>, <bubsy@delphi.com> wrote:
>How do you find out which pins are which voltages on a board that you
>have no pinouts for?
>erik
Here is an old posting of mine that many have seen but maybe some
of the new people are interested:
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IC List
Timing information for ICs is not yet available, and only TTL, 4000-series CMOS and some microprocessor (support) chips are included. For now, it is not clear how the format used can be extended to include linear ICs, as these usually require much more additional information such as a block diagram. The current file uses the PC8 character set (a.k.a. codepage 437), but can be converted to 7-bit ASCII without too much trouble (losing some niceties). As it is, it is small and simple enough to keep it in you
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Cinematronics C.P.U. Exorcisor Preliminary User Manual
C.P.U. EXORCISOR
PRELIMINARY USER MANUAL
David Fish
October 14th, 1997
Version 1.0
Table of Contents
Overview 3
Cinematronics Exorcisor Description 3
Signature Analysis 3
Equipment Necessary 3
Setting up the Equipment 4
HP5004A Self-test 4
Connecting the HP5004A Signature Analyzer to the Exorcisor 5
Verifying the Exorcisor output signatures 5
Preliminary CPU Operational Testi
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Title : Arcade Game Pinouts :
Date : 09-January-2003 :
Source : taken from the Conversion FAQ v1.1 :
by Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir :
and pinout identification by Tim Lindquist :
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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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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1986 Jed Margolin
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From: ERNIE::GRAHAM 2-JAN-1986 10:21:33.70
To: @SYS$MAIL:JUNK
CC:
Subj: ATARI GAMES 401-K PLAN
John Klein asked me to put the following memo out on junk mail:
TO: All Employees
FROM: John Klein/Dennis Wood
We are quite pleased to report that our 401-K Plan has gotten off
to an excellent start. As of today we had 118 employees making
contributions to the Plan.
We encoura
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From: zonn@concentric.net (Zonn Moore)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
Subject: Re: TECH:Cinematronics vectors
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 06:55:00 GMT
Organization: Concentric Internet Services
Lines: 67
Message-ID: <332e3261.814372@news.concentric.net>
References: <01bc3420$86b5f200$228480d0@default>
Reply-To: zonn@concentric.net
NNTP-Posting-Host: cnc132049.concentric.net
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1988 Jed Margolin
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From: MIKE::LIEBSTER 4-JAN-1988 14:39:28.82
To: @SYS$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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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1987 Jed Margolin
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From: KIM::RAINS 2-JAN-1987 10:27:26.19
To: @sys$mail:engineer
CC:
Subj: Computer Health Note #3
VAX-edrin Headache #3
You've been poking around somewhere in another directory (something like
SYS$USERDISK:[FRED.STUFF.MORESTUFF.EVENMORESTUFF]) and now you have found
something you want to get back to or reference with out so much directory name
baggage. Sure, it doesn't
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1990 Jed Margolin
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From: BERT::LTURNER 2-JAN-1990 15:43:12.18
To: @SYS$MAIL:EVERYBODY
CC: LTURNER
Subj: New Baby
This is to annouce the arrival of a new addition at the
Moore house. His name is Evan Alexander Bettencourt Moore.
He was born on Saturday, December 30, at 10:21A.
Weight -- 7 lbs 10 oz
Height -- 20 1/2 inches
Mother and baby are home and doing well.
_____________________________
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1991 Jed Margolin
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From: GAWD::MCCARTHY "Pat" 2-JAN-1991 12:37:15.74
To: @SYS$MAIL:JUNK
CC: MCCARTHY
Subj: New employee.
If you haven't already noticed or been introduced, we have a new
employee starting today.
His name is John Moore. He is a hardware design engineer in the
Electrical Design group, reporting to me. His office is the corner
cubicle just outside my office.
Drop by and say Hi.
_____
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1989 Jed Margolin
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From: KIM::HALLY 3-JAN-1989 09:01:01.61
To: DENCKER,RAY,HALLY,ROTBERG,BURGESS,MARGOLIN,COMSTOCK,NOBLE,MOSER,DIEKNEITE,FULLER,GROSSMAN
CC:
Subj: S.T.U.N. TEAM
last update: 1/3/89
Project: S.T.U.N. RUNNER (571)
Planned Field Test: FEB. 89
Planned Finished Goods Assy. JUNE 89
Project Leader: MIKE HALLY
Programmer(s): ED ROTBERG
ANDY BURGESS
Engineer: JE
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Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1992 Jed Margolin
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From: BERT::FRANCES 2-JAN-1992 17:56:52.97
To: MARGOLIN
CC:
Subj: PHONE MESSAGE
DAN ASH 879-3037 10:27AM
NEW 2101 MATERIAL HAS NO BUGS. CALL MARGO FOR MORE INFO.
___________________________________________________________________________
From: BERT::BROWN 3-JAN-1992 19:39:22.02
To: @SYS$MAIL:EVERYBODY
CC: BROWN
Subj: PREMIUM PAYMENT PLAN, MODIFIED CAFETERIA PLAN
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