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FAX 2

  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. Categories
  12. History
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Game infos

Description FAX 2
Name fax2
Manufacturer Exidy
Year 1983
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .084u6
Romset size 0 B
Romset file files
Romset zip 0 B
Language English
Genre Quiz

Parent and clones

Parent fax : FAX (1983)

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 no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

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
raster 0 no 256 256 59.996811 5644500 336 0 256 280 0 256

Dipswitchs

Roms list

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arcade fxa2-6a.16 2048 2b3bfc44 fxa2-6a.16 7e3b9133916c8121b2145942155601b3ade420da audiocpu 7000 good no
arcade fxa2-7a.16 2048 578c62b7 fxa2-7a.16 1bcb987e8730c001b7339c3dfab2467bf76421c7 audiocpu 7800 good no
arcade fxdb1-1a.bin 8192 97c153b5 0d5e66f0ded4453e1fe81cdcc56697664f76f28d maincpu 30000 good no
arcade fxdb1-1b.bin 8192 e13341cf 5cc2c9f060436026dbcbc6f893f8ef17f10b6c75 maincpu 20000 good no
arcade fxdb1-1c.bin 8192 0e42a2a4 f7021aad36b49338cdaae8e13638dbdd12327afc maincpu 10000 good no
arcade fxdb1-2a.bin 8192 63258140 cdb03f5130c72d286d1a2f227dcf646da6e8f40a maincpu 32000 good no
arcade fxdb1-2b.bin 8192 300d7a6f 4e28a522e14e0cf1b63be35e2a16b816d51f328c maincpu 22000 good no
arcade fxdb1-2c.bin 8192 cef8d49a a3005ab21add22ffb4c6f4cb9843db8964fef49c maincpu 12000 good no
arcade fxdb1-3a.bin 8192 1c698727 6886bbf04f837fbda9a192e55e995cac9c9e1cad maincpu 34000 good no
arcade fxdb1-3b.bin 8192 db9a6a3a d192f8ece73dfa12cd390c6e0218d5bf58c46074 maincpu 24000 good no
arcade fxdb1-3c.bin 8192 96217b39 fe80255c8763e714fbbf8b2a7ec481712fd463e8 maincpu 14000 good no
arcade fxdb1-4a.bin 8192 8283d6fc dba1f0f53a6b16f2ee7ce1e8e6e081a6be7586f6 maincpu 36000 good no
arcade fxdb1-4b.bin 8192 47faeb43 7991341d78b1d0c9e35c2472dbb05d21c001ba7f maincpu 26000 good no
arcade fxdb1-4c.bin 8192 9f1522d8 e79ef8f4642245f4d1c4d0fe14eb432a432e6f8a maincpu 16000 good no
arcade fxdb1-5a.bin 8192 b69542d2 67a102790b24a5638c8938579ace0b3dd9b0c953 maincpu 38000 good no
arcade fxdb1-5b.bin 8192 3ecf974f d18b7bdbb5e490b0d4b70baae06cb44cf0f2b643 maincpu 28000 good no
arcade fxdb1-5c.bin 8192 4770eb04 c8123ba4fd66da471099cd364615a196c4d1ea94 maincpu 18000 good no
arcade fxdb1-6a.bin 8192 ff949367 fb3d9c0abe3c915eaea983d9b429eb5227688532 maincpu 3a000 good no
arcade fxdb1-6b.bin 8192 526c4c0d 68480fb61d8e9e5386daeb94f5854913ab36b48d maincpu 2a000 good no
arcade fxdb1-6c.bin 8192 07c742ab c709be4a21cc946f2de9061948fe095ec511447e maincpu 1a000 good no
arcade fxdb1-7a.bin 8192 0f97b874 5790d3ed9eed2ce05947bc28cc252f720a7f3aeb maincpu 3c000 good no
arcade fxdb1-7b.bin 8192 4cf8217c fd7b9c34b0ae532209453d68f30f6f9fbcec1964 maincpu 2c000 good no
arcade fxdb1-7c.bin 8192 f2f39ebb 879f0954331d219d44e82d4cf13f84c1d03dd6d5 maincpu 1c000 good no
arcade fxdb1-8a.bin 8192 1d055bea 96531db0a3a36319bc0a28096e601302eb2eb115 maincpu 3 good no
arcade fxdb1-8b.bin 8192 99485e27 1f10e71507f111724a8b496f3cc57a6790116ac0 maincpu 2 good no
arcade fxdb1-8c.bin 8192 00f73e30 586c28d1ea14626ccd0e9195f26f18168bd0cf72 maincpu 1 good no
arcade fxl-11b 32 f76b4fcf fxl-11b 197e0cc508ffeb5cefa4046bdfb158939d598225 proms 120 good no
arcade fxl-12b 256 6b5aa3d7 fxl-12b bfc4a6d01b977d55ad4dadc0123339343f1aa975 proms 140 good no
arcade fxl-6b 256 e1e867ae fxl-6b fe4cb560860579102aedad2c81fd7bed5825f484 proms 0 good no
arcade fxl-8b 32 0da1bdf9 fxl-8b 0c2d85da59cf86f2d9cf5f33bdc63902ca5507d3 proms 100 good no
arcade fxl1-11d.32 2048 62083db2 fxl1-11d.32 0c6e90b73419bff53f991e66d4faa9495c7d8e09 gfx1 0 good no
arcade fxl8-10a.32 4096 9b03938f fxl8-10a.32 af4c27b06a1f1be917316910b88d026b67cc60c0 maincpu b000 good no
arcade fxl8-11a.32 4096 2c9cee8a fxl8-11a.32 169045b4d840730cfbaa0b9a8a8d82907ea09d0c maincpu a000 good no
arcade fxl8-12a.32 4096 60a41ff1 fxl8-12a.32 1703dbedd09354d89c6014644d0ffe13ec657b8b maincpu 9000 good no
arcade fxl8-13a.32 4096 8e30bf6b fxl8-13a.32 1fdf010da0258bc038554cf33c26e539a1f6b648 maincpu 8000 good no
arcade fxl8-6a.32 4096 812e39f3 fxl8-6a.32 41c99f8483c69617f9c8dd82f979630ea9190454 maincpu f000 good no
arcade fxl8-7a.32 4096 1471fef5 fxl8-7a.32 89308f3c2a0d7ea699e99622d37c5c95e3eaaf95 maincpu e000 good no
arcade fxl8-8a.32 4096 db3470bc fxl8-8a.32 7786f84ab41765ea91ab241d14a207044eda0e93 maincpu d000 good no
arcade fxl8-9a.32 4096 fb869f62 fxl8-9a.32 cea6ff423c60662a1b36e9565940432707d5299b maincpu c000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
Exidy SFX+PSG custom audio
M6502 audiocpu cpu 894886
Speaker mono audio

Categories

History


Arcade Video game published 36 years ago:

Fax (c) 1983 Exidy.

Who? When? What? Where? Why? Fax is a trivia game that asks questions about : general knowledge, sports, history and entertainment.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : MOS Technology M6502 (@ 705.562 Khz)
Sound CPU : MOS Technology M6502 (@ 894.886 Khz)
Sound Chips : Custom (@ 894.886 Khz)

Players : 2
Buttons : 4 (A, B, C, and D)

- TRIVIA -

Released in June 1983.

Fax came in what was essentially a jukebox cabinet (with a black and woodgrain finish). This was probably because Exidy had hoped to sell this machine to a different market than its normal arcade games. It has a 9in. monitor mounted in the center (with a 'Fax' logo on the monitor bezel), and a row of buttons on each side of the screen. Sales of this title were limited a bit by its $2495 price tag (USD), which was a good $500 over the average arcade game price at the time.

This game used an advanced (proprietary), compression algorithm to hold nearly 3700 questions in a tiny amount of EPROM space (roughly 128K, which was still a huge amount of storage in 1983, which was why this game was so expensive). Exidy also sold several EPROM replacement kits that provided new questions, but they sold very poorly, and are nearly impossible to find today.

- SERIES -

1. Fax (1983)
2. Fax II

- STAFF -

Written by : Vic Tolomei, Larry Hutcherson
Art by : Mike Craven

- PORTS -

* COMPUTERS:
Apple II
PC
Commodore C64
Atari 800

- CONTRIBUTE -

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