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Forte Card (Ver 110, Spanish)

  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. MAMEinfo
  13. History
Download fortecrd.zip (259 KB)
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Game infos

Description Forte Card (Ver 110, Spanish)
Name fortecrd
Manufacturer Fortex Ltd
Year 1994
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 1P
Added to MAME .144u1
Romset size 259 KB
Romset file 7 files
Romset zip 88 B
Language Spanish
Genre Casino

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

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 1
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
gambling no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 600 240 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade forte_card.u38 65536 258fb7bf cd75001fe40836b2dc229caddfc38f6076df7a79 gfx1 0 good no
arcade forte_card.u39 65536 3d9c478e eb86115d1c36038f2c80cd116f5aeddd94036424 gfx1 10000 good no
arcade forte_card.u40 65536 9693bb83 e3e3bc750c89a1edd1072ce3890b2ce498dec633 gfx1 20000 good no
arcade forte_card.u7 65536 79fc6dd3 5454f2ee12b62d573b61c54e48398f43332b000e maincpu 0 good no
arcade forte_card_82s147.u47 512 7e631818 ac08b0de30260278af3a1c5dee5810d4304cb9ca proms 0 good no
arcade forte_card_93cs56_serial_12345678.u13 256 2fc5961d f958c8b2b4e48cc6e5a607a6751acde5592bd27f eeprom 0 good no
arcade fortecrd_nvram.u6 2048 7d3e7eb5 788fe7adc381bcc6eaefed33f5aa1081340608a0 nvram 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A aysnd audio 1500000
Speaker mono audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 3000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.176 [Roberto Fresca, Rob Ragon]

0.99u3 [David Haywood]


TODO:

* Dump EEPROM (non-default data)


WIP:

- 0.176: Switched Forte Card (Ver 110, Spanish) to parent set since it's a posterior and newer version. Also cleaned up the driver [Roberto Fresca].

- 0.146: Updated Forte Card to use modern I8255 implementation instead of the legacy one [Fabio Priuli].

- 0.144u4: Angelo Salese, Roberto Fresca, Rob Ragon fixed clone Forte Card (Spanish) - Game now playable. Forte Card improvements [Roberto Fresca]: A lot of work on inputs. Added DIP locations. Lamps documentation and support. Added Lamps layout. Fixed and simplified inputs. Now Owner, Rental and Credits are proper toggled service keys. Improved the button-lamps layout with the half and double addition for betting in the gamble stage. Reverse engineering and partially documented the serial EEPROM data. Added a clean default NVRAM and serial EEPROM. Added company and year notes. Added technical notes. Added dipswitches 'Attract Mode', 'DSW-1', 'DSW-3', 'DSW-4', 'DSW-5', 'DSW-6', 'DSW-7' and 'DSW-8'. Changed parent description to 'Forte Card (Ver 103, English)' and clone (Spanish) 'Forte Card (Ver 110, Spanish)'.

- 0.144u1: Roberto Fresca and Rob Ragon added clone Forte Card (Spanish). Forte Card improvements [Roberto Fresca, Rob Ragon]: Added crystal through #define. Correct clocks for CPU, CRTC and AY8910. Added new spanish set. Added correct bipolar dump. Correct palette routines, plus video resnet. Watchdog. Added preliminary support for 93SC56 serial EEPROM. Added proper serial EEPROM dump. Added a ton of technical notes. Improved the 93SC56 serial EEPROM interface. Added more findings and technical notes. Angelo Salese fixed colors and implemented RTC in Forte Card. Angelo Salese moved V3021 RTC emulation into a proper device, and made it to increment the time. Hooked this up into Forte Card driver. Added roms forte_card_93cs56.u13 and forte_card_82s147.u47. Changed visible area to 600x240. Changed parent description to 'Forte Card (English)'.

- 0.135u1: Angelo Salese fixed gfx decoding and hooked up MC6845 in the Forte Card driver.

- 0.128u3: Some improvements to the Forte Card driver [Angelo Salese] - not yet working. Added AY-3-8910A (1.5MHz) sound. Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 6 MHz and visible area to 640x256. Added dipswitches 'IN0', 'IN1', 'IN2', 'DSW1' and 12x 'Unknown'.

- 0.99u3: David Haywood added 'Forte Card' (unknown 19??).

History


Arcade Video game published 25 years ago:

Forte Card (c) 1994 Fortex, Limited.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 8 Mhz)

Players : 1

- CONTRIBUTE -

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