qwak: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Qwak (c) 1982 Atari.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : M6502 (@ 1.512 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) POKEY (@ 1.512 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 240 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 16
Players : 1
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 1
- TRIVIA -
This prototype was never released. Qwak was a '15-puzzle' game with cute animations and it shares with MM2 the distinction of using 'Motion Objects' for text. Designers were unsure whether it was originally designed for a touch-screen or not. It could have been a joystick game that happened to be in development when they were interested in evaluating touch-screen technology. They felt that the touch-screen would make a more intuitive interface, but were apparently wrong. The most common comment at the focus-group was 'could you put a joystick or buttons on it. It would be easier'...
This game runs on the Atari 6502 Color Raster hardware.
- STAFF -
Designed and programmed by : Mark Cerny
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.34b6 [Mike Balfour]
WIP:
- 0.131u3: Xander added save state to the Runaway driver.
- 0.131u1: Angelo Salese merged memory maps in the Runaway driver.
- 0.77u2: Renamed (qwakprot) to (qwak). Added 3rd coin slot.
- 0.62: Removed 3rd coin slot.
- 0.60: Changed clock speed of the 2x Pokey's to 1512000 Hz.
- 15th April 2002: Aaron Giles merged the Centipede, Millipede, Warlords and Qwak prototype drivers because they were similar.
- 0.34b7: Mike Balfour added accurate colors to Qwak.
- 0.34b6: Mike Balfour added Qwak (prototype) (Atari 1982). The driver based *extremely* loosely on the Centipede driver. TODO: Fix colors. Coins seem to count twice instead of once? Find dipswitches (should be at $4000, I would think). Figure out what $1000, $2000 and $2001 are used for. Figure out exactly what the unknown bits in the $3000 area do.
- 15th August 1998: Dumped Qwak (prototype). ROMs are labeled "QWAK". Board is labeled "RUNAWAY"
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Romset: 32 kb / 8 files / 16.0 zip
MAME XML Output:
| | <game name="qwak" sourcefile="runaway.c"> |
| | | <description>Qwak (prototype)</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Atari</manufacturer> |
| | | <rom name="qwak8000.bin" size="4096" crc="4d002d8a" sha1="8621e7ec1ab3cb8d003858227e858354cd79dbf1" region="maincpu" offset="8000"/> |
| | | <rom name="qwak9000.bin" size="4096" crc="e0c78fd7" sha1="f5f397950971d12a7ae47fc64aa8f5751463b8a5" region="maincpu" offset="9000"/> |
| | | <rom name="qwaka000.bin" size="4096" crc="e5770fc9" sha1="c9556e9c2f7b6c37755ac9f10d95027118317b4a" region="maincpu" offset="a000"/> |
| | | <rom name="qwakb000.bin" size="4096" crc="90771cc0" sha1="5715e5bfccb05c51d871b443e42b0950ec23e330" region="maincpu" offset="b000"/> |
| | | <rom name="qwakgfx0.bin" size="4096" crc="bed2c067" sha1="53d909b414042d54fe2e86ae0d6c7a4ded16b87e" region="gfx1" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="qwakgfx1.bin" size="4096" crc="73a31d28" sha1="bbe076432866398bcd02962dd90eb178e3a38fb1" region="gfx1" offset="1000"/> |
| | | <rom name="qwakgfx2.bin" size="4096" crc="07fd9e80" sha1="83d5f22b8316ac7e88d8ecdb238182a35a6f6362" region="gfx1" offset="2000"/> |
| | | <rom name="qwakgfx3.bin" size="4096" crc="e8416f2b" sha1="171f6539575f2c06b431ab5118e5cbaf740f557d" region="gfx1" offset="3000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="M6502" clock="1512000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="pokey1" name="POKEYN" clock="1512000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="pokey2" name="POKEYN" clock="1512000"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="270" width="256" height="240" refresh="60.000000" pixclock="4039680" htotal="256" hbend="0" hbstart="256" vtotal="263" vbend="0" vbstart="240" /> |
| | | <input players="1" buttons="1" coins="3"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="DIP 1" tag="4000" mask="1"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="1"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="DIP 2" tag="4000" mask="2"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="2"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="DIP 3" tag="4000" mask="4"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="4"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="DIP 4" tag="4000" mask="8"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="8"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="DIP 5" tag="4000" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="16"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="DIP 6" tag="4000" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="DIP 7" tag="4000" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="DIP 8" tag="4000" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="16"/> |
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