Air Race (prototype)

Game infos

Sound infos

Driver infos

Inputs infos

Controls infos

type	ways	minimum	maximum	sensitivity	keydelta	reverse
doublejoy	8					no
stick		0	255	50	5	no

Display infos

type	rotate	flipx	width	height	refresh	pixclock	htotal	hbend	hbstart	vtotal	vbend	vbstart
raster	0	no	512	384	60.006001	16000000	660	0	512	404	0	384

Roms list

console	name	bios	size	crc	md5	merge	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	2d_data		30667					gfx	0	nodump	no
arcade	demo.hex		154915	937fa025			c393a05645ad5df9268f03fffad294477e6f090b	code	0	good	no
arcade	mathbs.lda		7680	d215acd4			853e792b343dc6bcb5b11d455af478a79edfd740	dsp	0	good	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
M68000	maincpu	cpu	8000000
TMS32010	dsp1	cpu	16000000

Categories

• Added to Mame in version .139u1
• Driving
• Plane

MAMEinfo

0.139u1 [Phil Bennett, Ken Van Mersbergen]


NOTE:

- Archived VHS tape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvYLCsmNKfE


WIP:

- 0.139u1: Phil Bennett and Ken Van Mersbergen added 'Air Race (prototype)' (Atari Games 1985).

- 31st July 2010: Phil Bennett - Here's an interesting pair which never saw life outside of the Atari labs. The Last Starfighter is of course, Atari's aborted game adaptation of the film/game within the film. If you haven't already done so, I recommend checking-out the proposal for the game (http://www.atarigames.com/page5/files/page5_8.pdf). On show here is an unfinished cave-chase sequence. You can shoot and destroy the enemy ships in the cave but that's pretty much it (there's no end to the enemies nor the cave). A dogfight sequence was also programmed and can be seen in this game footage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghjjeZpoKLI). The unsightly coloured-blocks are due to missing graphics data for the text and HUD. Air Race is a slightly more advanced prototype where you pilot a ship around a futuristic indoor race course. Very impressive-looking stuff for 1985. Perhaps too impressive as the high cost of the hardware was the main factor that kept the games from market. Both games ran on System IV hardware (whatever happened to System III?), comprising a 68000 and a TMS32010 DSP for geometry calculations (an extra DSP was added for Air Race). Rasterization is performed by custom hardware (Hard Drivin' and later games used a software approach). AFAIK, the hardware for these games no longer exists. There are no ROMs - we're running the binaries that were uploaded to the RAM of the development hardware. You could go as far to say that these games are MAME-exclusives.


LEVELS: 1 (endless)


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