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>Found! This one is serial no. 44. Primitive game from 1976 with a lot of charm. Seems to be fully functional.

A huge congrats there for finding a cab. Almost within five years 05/21/12 of when I had posted about getting a manual (photocopy I believe).

This also means you can always go back and update your old post 05/25/12 if wanting to do so. :-) *kidding* I sometimes do that myself on some of my outdated posts here on MW.

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Nice find! I've never seen or even heard of any Knights in Armor cabinets in existence. I've been collecting for 15+ years and have found a lot of neat b&w games.
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> Andy Welburn is going to look at the board and dump the proms.

A definite good choice.

I did a brief info regarding roms on the pcb.

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From Knights in Armor logic schematics: Man rom or also shown as ROM 1 (located at M1 on the pcb)..the functions throughout schematics list M.video etc which is related to ROM 1 (ie: Man Rom).

Also from Knights in Armor logic schematics: Horse rom or also shown as ROM 2 (located at M2 on the pcb)..the functions throughout schematics list H.video etc which is related to ROM 2 (ie: Horse Rom).

Both rom chips are listed as type: 82S115P there is also 8205R so that is probably a chip equivalent in case the other type isn't available.
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Some of the PSE brand games roms are now documented within MAME even though it will be a while before games are emulated. Moogly did add in initial support for some rom chips and couriersud made sure to get rom support to work within the non-cpu netlist environment so things are progressing along the way such as Atari Stunt Cycle now showing an image on the screen, but not anywhere playable in MAME at this time.

src/mame/drivers/pse.cpp

/*
ROM_START( knightar )
ROM_REGION( 0x10000, "maincpu", ROMREGION_ERASE00 )

ROM_REGION( 0x0020, "roms", ROMREGION_ERASE00 )
ROM_LOAD( "1.m1" ) // Man ROM stores image characters of knights. 82S115P or 8205R according to Knights in Armor schematics
ROM_LOAD( "2.m2" ) // Horse ROM stores image characters of horses. 82S115P or 8205R according to Knights in Armor schematics
ROM_END
*/

//GAME( 1976, knightar, 0, pse, 0, driver_device, 0, ROT0, "Project Support Engineering", "Knights in Armor [TTL]", MACHINE_IS_SKELETON )

I did post a user instructions on the artwork forum in case any cab owner of the game needed to make copies of all the various coin settings.

iirc there were 6 operator setting options for coin credits. It was just printed on disposable paper which was going about it the wrong way, but that was then of 1970s thinking.

I was hoping someone was able to match the font type of the coin credits when I uploaded to artwork forum, but no one was able to find the exact font type.

I can send a photocopy of the paperwork (a photocopy I believe...not original) that I have to you. Send me a message with mailing address and I'll get a set on its way to you.

btw: If Andy is able to dump any Exidy pcbs, Death Race and Alley Rally are on want list.

Exidy Attack is supported, but notes indicate another Attack pcb might be needed just to verify if current prom dumps are good.

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src/mame/drivers/exidyttl.cpp

Exidy discrete hardware games

Alley Rally (1976/10) (AR-1A)
Attack (1977/02)
Death Race (1976/04)
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Edited by gregf (05/12/17 12:35 AM)