MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Update @ Charles MacDonald's: DECO cassette drive overview *edited*

I hope some preliminary Kee Games Quiz Show driver can be added since Quiz Show roms have already been dumped. As for tapes data, that's on the needed list....assuming any of the tapes and its data contents are still readable these days.

Quiz Show flyer: http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=846

I forgot to mention about Quiz Show does appear to make use of a s2650 cpu. Info came from Al Kossow back around 2004 or 2005. iirc dwidel had mentioned that the Quiz Show manual sort of tried to hide that piece of info, but Al Kossow did post that on old MAME.net forum years ago.

And Ramtek Trivia is still on my old time non-cpu games list. Cabs, tapes, pcbs, manuals, schematics are accounted for (credits to angera, italie, Frank, iritis, Smit, and Mr. Do) with one set of proms dumped from a pcb a few years ago and another Trivia pcb to eventually be dumped as well. italie had made backups of tapes, and "mw" did partially decode one of the tapes in 2009 iirc to show what the data would look like if it were displayed on the monitor.

Non-cpu emulation is still some ways off, but some folks (italie, siftware, Frank P., myself) do have paperwork (Trivia manual and or Trivia schematics) along with two Trivia cabs so this at least does have a slight chance of being emulated....it's just that emulating Trivia would be a truckload project itself compared to emulating a couple of the various pong clones or maybe Stunt Cycle. The Trivia schematics looks like a 7 page (ledger size 11x17) nightmare compared to other non-cpu video games. The game might appear to have a simple operation....nothing elaborate, but schematics show otherwise. ;-)

Trivia flyer: http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=2605

Edited by gregf (04/12/11 12:15 AM)