bowler: MAME ROM Information.
History:
4 Player Bowling Alley (c) 1978 Midway.
An old black and white bowling game up to 4 players.
- TECHNICAL -
[Upright model] [No. 730]
Cabinet dimensions : 72.5inch high x 28.5inch deep x 38.5inch wide
Main CPU : 8080 (@ 1.9968 Mhz)
Discrete circuitry
Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 280 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 2
Players : 1
Control : trackball
Buttons : 2
- TRIVIA -
Released in April 1979.
Also released as a Cocktail Table model : "4 Player Bowling Alley [Cocktail Table model]".
One of Midway's myriad bowling games, this was the first that featured the popular 'Flash' variation with its timing-based scoring scheme. To support this, an external display was used to highlight the appropriate section of the score scheme.
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
MAME Info:
0.34b1 [Al Kossow]
Artwork available
TODO:
* Complete sound
WIP:
- 7th December 2009: Mr. Do - Some time ago, I asked Dan at The Arcade Flyer Archive to send me a hi-res scan of Midway's Bowling Alley. I finally got around to using it, so the game's artwork now has lamps like it should. Special thanks to Twisty for helping identify the font.
- 0.114: Derrick Renaud emulated foul sound in Bowling Alley. Added Discrete sound.
- 28th January 2007: Mr. Do - Zsolt hooked up the lamps for Midway Bowling Alley. I have some nice reference material for Midway Bowling.
- 0.111u4: Zsolt Vasvari and Derrick Renaud added lamp outputs to Bowling Alley. Changed description to 'Bowling Alley'. Changed 8080 CPU clock speed to 1996800 Hz and visible area to 224x256.
- 0.103u3: Bob Seidel improved dipswitches for '4 Player Bowling Alley'. Added dipswitches 'Demo Sounds', 'Game Time', 'Difficulty' and 'Cabinet.
- 0.61: Changed visible area to 224x280.
- 6th May 2002: Zsolt Vasvari added the off screen bonus display to 4 Player Bowling in the 8080bw driver.
- 0.37b12: Changed description to '4 Player Bowling Alley'.
- 0.36: Added 3x 'Unknown' dipswitch.
- 0.34b1: Al Kossow added 4 Player Bowling (Midway 1978).
- 26th February 1998: Kevin Klopp dumped Bowling Alley. A Midway game with large trackball.
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* Laser
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Romset: 10 kb / 5 files / 7.54 zip
MAME XML Output:
| | <game name="bowler" sourcefile="mw8080bw.c"> |
| | | <description>Bowling Alley</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Midway</manufacturer> |
| | | <rom name="h.cpu" size="2048" crc="74c29b93" sha1="9cbd5b7b8a4c889406b6bc065360f74c036320b2" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="g.cpu" size="2048" crc="ca26d8b4" sha1="cf18991cde8044a961cf556f18c6eb60a7ade595" region="maincpu" offset="800"/> |
| | | <rom name="f.cpu" size="2048" crc="ba8a0bfa" sha1="bb017ddac58d031b249596b70ab1068cd1bad499" region="maincpu" offset="1000"/> |
| | | <rom name="e.cpu" size="2048" crc="4da65a40" sha1="7795d59870fa722da89888e72152145662554080" region="maincpu" offset="1800"/> |
| | | <rom name="d.cpu" size="2048" crc="e7dbc9d9" sha1="05049a69ee588de85db86df188e7670778b77e90" region="maincpu" offset="4000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="8080" clock="1996800"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="discrete" name="DISCRETE"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="90" width="260" height="224" refresh="59.541985" pixclock="4992000" htotal="320" hbend="0" hbstart="260" vtotal="262" vbend="0" vbstart="224" /> |
| | | <input players="1" buttons="2" coins="1"> |
| | | | <control type="trackball" minimum="0" maximum="255" sensitivity="10" keydelta="10" reverse="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Language" tag="IN0" mask="3"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="English" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="French" value="1"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="German" value="2"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Demo Sounds" tag="IN0" mask="4"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="4" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Game Time" tag="IN0" mask="8"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="No Limit" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="5 Minutes" value="8" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coinage" tag="IN0" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="16"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="IN0" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Easy" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hard" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Cabinet" tag="IN0" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Upright" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Cocktail (not functional)" value="64"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="IN0" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="128"/> |
| | | <driver status="imperfect" emulation="good" color="good" sound="imperfect" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="0"/> |
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