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Asterock (Sidam bootleg of Asteroids)

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Dipswitchs
  9. Roms list
  10. Chips list
  11. Serie
  12. Categories
  13. History
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Game infos

Description Asterock (Sidam bootleg of Asteroids)
Name asterock
Manufacturer bootleg (Sidam)
Year 1979
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .076u1
Romset size 0 B
Romset file files
Romset zip 0 B
Language English
Genre Shooter

Parent and clones

Parent asteroid : Asteroids (rev 4) (1979)

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

Driver infos

Driver status good
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound good
Driver graphic good
Driver cocktail
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no
Input tilt yes
Input players 1
Input buttons
Input coins 3

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
only_buttons no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
vector 0 no 61.523438

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 034602-01.c8 256 97953db8 034602-01.c8 8cbded64d1dd35b18c4d5cece00f77e7b2cab2ad user1 0 good no
arcade 10505.0 1024 6bd2053f 790f2858f44bbb1854e2d9d549e29f4815c4665b maincpu 5000 good no
arcade 10505.1 1024 231ce201 710f4c19864d725ba1c9ea447a97e84001a679f7 maincpu 5400 good no
arcade 10505.2 1024 cdf720c6 85fe748096478e28a06bd98ff3aad73ab21b22a4 maincpu 6800 good no
arcade 10505.3 1024 ee58bdf0 80094cb5dafd327aff6658ede33106f0493a809d maincpu 6c00 good no
arcade 10505.4 1024 8d3e421e 5f5719ab84d4755e69bef205d313b455bc59c413 maincpu 7000 good no
arcade 10505.5 1024 d2ce7672 b6012e09b2439a614a55bcf23be0692c42830e21 maincpu 7400 good no
arcade 10505.6 1024 74103c87 e568b5ac573a6d0474cf672b3c62abfbd3320799 maincpu 7800 good no
arcade 10505.7 1024 75a39768 bf22998fd692fb01964d8894e421435c55d746a0 maincpu 7c00 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
DISCRETE discrete audio
M6502 maincpu cpu 1512000
Speaker mono audio

Serie

Serie : Asteroids
  1. Asterock (Sidam bootleg of Asteroids) (1979)
  2. Asterock (Videotron bootleg of Asteroids) (1979)
  3. Asteroids (rev 4) (1979)
  4. Asteroids (rev 1) (1979)
  5. Asteroids (rev 2) (1979)
  6. Asteroids (bootleg on Lunar Lander hardware) (1979)
  7. Hyperspace (bootleg of Asteroids) (1979)
  8. Meteor (bootleg of Asteroids) (1979)
  9. Meteorites (bootleg of Asteroids) (1979)
  10. Aerolitos (Spanish bootleg of Asteroids) (1980)
  11. Asteroids Deluxe (rev 3) (1980)
  12. Asteroids Deluxe (rev 1) (1980)
  13. Asteroids Deluxe (rev 2) (1980)
  14. Asteroids (1980)
  15. Space Duel (version 2) (1980)
  16. Space Duel (prototype) (1980)
  17. Space Duel (version 1) (1980)
  18. Asteroids (1981)
  19. Asteroids (1981)
  20. Asteroids (Older?) (1981)
  21. Space Rocks (Spanish clone of Asteroids) (1981)
  22. Asteroids (Prototype) (1982)
  23. Hyperspace (USA) (1983)
  24. Asteroids (NTSC) (1984)
  25. Asteroidi (1984)
  26. Hyperspace - Aventures Spatio-Temporelles (Fra) (1985)
  27. Asteroidi (from issue 11/87) (1987)
  28. Blasteroids (rev 4) (1987)
  29. Blasteroids (Euro) (1987)
  30. Blasteroids (rev 2) (1987)
  31. Blasteroids (rev 3) (1987)
  32. Blasteroids (German, rev 2) (1987)
  33. Blasteroids (with heads) (1987)
  34. Blasteroids (Euro) (1988)
  35. Blasteroids (UK) (1989)
  36. Blasteroids (UK) (1989)
  37. Asteroides (198?)
  38. Asteroids (Euro, USA) (1992)
  39. Asteroids (USA) (1998)
  40. Asteroids (Euro, USA) (1999)
  41. Asteroids Hyper 64 (USA) (1999)
  42. Asteroids (19??)
  43. Asteroids (19??)
  44. Asteroids (19??)
  45. Blasteroids (Euro) (19??)
  46. Asteroids Deluxe (NTSC) (2007)
  47. Space Duel (PAL) (2007)
  48. Space Rocks (RC7, NTSC) (2012)

Categories

History


Arcade Video game published 40 years ago:

Asterock (c) 1979 Sidam.

An Italian bootleg of Atari's Asteroids.

- TRIVIA -

The official Italian distributor of Atari Arcades, f.lli Bertolino s.r.l., moved a legal attack against Sidam, and won. Many code fragments stored in ROM of Asterock, Missile Storm and other Sidam clones was identical to those contained in Atari originals' memory. Sidam changed the coin accept and sound routines, to get rid of copyrighted Atari POKEY chip. Sidam called this a 'coincidence'; moreover, the Italian legislation did not mention directly the computer programs as copyrighted materials like songs and books. However, the court sentenced about the 'intellectual property' of programs - this was an important sentence in Italian legal history - and Sidam was convicted of copyright violation.

- CONTRIBUTE -

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