MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Knights In Armor (PSE, 1976)

>I also have super rare Cobra Gunship and TV Pinball PCBs that are TTL, if that's useful to MAME at all.

Meadows Cobra Gunship does use roms. Hold on to those pcbs just in case.

For Meadows Cobra Gunship, the roms have been dumped by siftware years ago (hard to believe it has been that long ago) and it is documented within the source file src/mame/drivers/meadwttl.cpp

The Meadows ttl file is just behind the pse.cpp source file in regards to documenting the various non-cpu games. At this time, the only remaining known Meadows game that uses roms and is on the want list is Drop Zone 4.

Meadows Discrete Game List

Bombs Away (1976)
Ckidzo (1976)
Cobra Gunship (1976)
Drop Zone 4 (1975)
Flim Flam (1974)
Flim Flam II (1975)
Gridiron (1977)
Meadows 4 in 1 (197?)
Star Shooter (1975)

GAME( 1976, cgunship, 0, meadows, 0, driver_device, 0, ROT0, "Meadows", "Cobra Gunship [TTL]", MACHINE_IS_SKELETON )

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Project Support Engineering Games

Game Name DATA
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1-2-4 Cocktail Table (197?) UNKNOWN
Bazooka (1976/11) YES
Desert Patrol (1977/11) YES
Espana (cabinet) (1975/10) NO
Frenzy (1975/08) UNKNOWN
Game Tree (1978/02) YES
Hodge Podge (1975?) NO
Knights in Armor (1976/06) YES
Maneater (1975/11) YES
Play Five (1975?) UNKNOWN
Scandia (cabinet) (1975/08) NO
Two Game (1974) UNKNOWN
U.N. Command (1977) YES?

>and TV Pinball PCBs that are TTL

Assuming this is Exidy's TV Pinball, it is supposedly the same pcb as Chicago Coins TV Pin Game in which it doesn't have any roms etc. Exidy and Chicago Coin had contracts with each other regarding some of the video games in which were licensed back in 1970s.

>By the way, Knights in Armor looks like pretty advanced stuff for 1976!

Yep. I posted my take with Knights in Armor five years earlier when first seeing the game way back then.

Some games did have pretty good game designers that knew how to push the graphics design to the limits with some of the hardware. Atari with Shark/Jaws in 1975 seemed advanced with the sprite images imo. I was surprised that Knights in Armor was a single pcb game. I was expecting the game to be a multiple pcb hardware setup with their later games: Game Tree and Desert Patrol.

I can see Knights in Armor might have a better chance of being emulated first since it is a single pcb, but emulating the control inputs might be the challenge. Moogly did do some good work on netlist additions several months earlier since he was also emulating a computer system that required that type of work.

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