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Poly-Play (ZRE)

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  2. Sound
  3. Driver
  4. Inputs
  5. Controls
  6. Display
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Game infos

Description Poly-Play (ZRE)
Name polyplay
Manufacturer VEB Polytechnik Karl-Marx-Stadt
Year 1986
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 1P
Added to MAME .037b02
Romset size 36 KB
Romset file 36 files
Romset zip 26 B
Language English
Evaluation 10 to 20 (Horrible)
Genre Multiplay

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

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 512 256 50 6553600 512 0 512 256 0 256

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 1_-_5000.30 1024 9f5e2ba1 58c696afbda8932f5e401b0a82b2de5cdfc2d1fb maincpu 5000 good no
arcade 1_-_5400.26 1024 b5f9a780 eb785b7668f6af0a9df84cbd1905173869377e6c maincpu 5400 good no
arcade 1_-_5800.22 1024 d973ad12 81cc5e19e83f2e5b10b885583c250a2ff66bafe5 maincpu 5800 good no
arcade 1_-_5c00.18 1024 9c22ea79 e25ed745589a83e297dba936a6e5979f1b31b2d5 maincpu 5c00 good no
arcade 1_-_6000.31 1024 245c49ca 12e5a032327fb45b2a240aff11b0c5d1798932f4 maincpu 6000 good no
arcade 1_-_6400.27 1024 181e427e 6b65409cd8410e632093662f5de2989dd9134620 maincpu 6400 good no
arcade 1_-_6800.23 1024 8a6c1f97 bf9d4dda8ac933a4a700f52540dcd1197f0a64eb maincpu 6800 good no
arcade 1_-_6c00.19 1024 77901dc9 b1132e06011aa8f7a95c43f447cd422f01139bb1 maincpu 6c00 good no
arcade 1_-_7000.32 1024 83ffbe57 1e06408f7b4c9a4e5cadab58f6efbc03a5bedc1e maincpu 7000 good no
arcade 1_-_7400.28 1024 e2a66531 1c9eb54e9c8a13f26335d8fb79fe5e39c28b3255 maincpu 7400 good no
arcade 1_-_7800.24 1024 1d0803ef 15a1996f9262f26cf531f329e086b10b3c25ce92 maincpu 7800 good no
arcade 1_-_7c00.20 1024 17dfa7e4 afb471dc6cb2faccfb4305540f75162fcee3d622 maincpu 7c00 good no
arcade 1_-_8000.33 1024 6ee02375 fbf797b655639ee442804a30fd3a06bbf261999a maincpu 8000 good no
arcade 1_-_8400.29 1024 9db09598 8eb385542a617b23caad3ce7bbdd9714c1dd684f maincpu 8400 good no
arcade 1_-_8800.25 1024 ca2f963f 34295f02bfd1bca141d650bbbbc1989e01c67b2f maincpu 8800 good no
arcade 1_-_8c00.21 1024 0c7dec2d 48d776b97c1eca851f89b0c5df4d5765d9aa0319 maincpu 8c00 good no
arcade 2_-_1000.14 1024 950dfcdb 74170d5c99d1ea61fe37d1fe023dca96efb1ca69 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade 2_-_1400.10 1024 829f74ca 4df9d3c24e1bc4c2c953dce9530e43a00ecf67fc maincpu 1400 good no
arcade 2_-_1800.6 1024 b69306f5 66d7c3cf76782a5b6eafa3e1513ecc9a9df0e0e1 maincpu 1800 good no
arcade 2_-_1c00.2 1024 aede2280 0a01394ab70d07d666e955c87a08cb4d4945767e maincpu 1c00 good no
arcade 2_-_2000.15 1024 6c7ad0d8 df959d1e43fde96b5e21e3c53b397209a98ea423 maincpu 2000 good no
arcade 2_-_2400.11 1024 bc7462f0 01ca680c74b92b9ba5a85f98e0933ef1e754bfc1 maincpu 2400 good no
arcade 2_-_2800.7 1024 9ccf1958 6bdf04d7796074af7327fab6717b52736540f97c maincpu 2800 good no
arcade 2_-_2c00.3 1024 21827930 71d27d68f6973a59996102381f8754d9b353c65a maincpu 2c00 good no
arcade 2_-_3000.16 1024 b3b3c0ec a94cd9794d59ea2f9ddd8bef86e6e3a269b276ad maincpu 3000 good no
arcade 2_-_3400.12 1024 bd416cd0 57391cc4a417468455b45014969067629fd629b8 maincpu 3400 good no
arcade 2_-_3800.8 1024 1c470b7c f7c71ee1752ecd4f30a35f14ee392b37febefb9c maincpu 3800 good no
arcade 2_-_3c00.4 1024 b8354a19 58ea7798ecc1be987b1217f4078c7cb366622dd3 maincpu 3c00 good no
arcade 2_-_4000.17 1024 1e01041e ff63e4bb924d1c26e445a28c5f8cbc696b4b9f5a maincpu 4000 good no
arcade 2_-_4400.13 1024 fe4d8959 233f97956f4c819558d5d38034d92edc0e86a0de maincpu 4400 good no
arcade 2_-_4800.9 1024 c45f1d9d f3373f1f5a3c6099fd38e65f66e024ef042a984c maincpu 4800 good no
arcade 2_-_4c00.5 1024 26950ad6 881f5f0f4806ba6f21d0b28a70fc43363d51419b maincpu 4c00 good no
arcade char.1 1024 5242dd6b ba8f317df62fe4360757333215ce3c8223c68c4e gfx1 0 good no
arcade cpu_0000.37 1024 87884c5f 849c6b3f40496c694a123d6eec268a7128c037f0 maincpu 0 good no
arcade cpu_0400.36 1024 d5c84829 baa8790e77db66e1e543b3a0e5390cc71256de2f maincpu 400 good no
arcade cpu_0800.35 1024 5f36d08e 08ecf8143e818a9844b4f168e68629d6d4481a8a maincpu 800 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
Filtered 1-bit DAC speaker2 audio
Speaker mono audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 2457600

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b2 [Martin Buchholz]


< DDR / Germany >


Artwork available


WIP:

- 0.184: Hook up the SIO [SailorSat].

- 0.182: SailorSat added light organ and optional layout. Traced the lines on the board to figure out how the lightorgan worked. A zero cross detector triggers NMI on the cpu, which then operates the light organ.

- 0.182: Changed description to 'Poly-Play (ZRE)'. Replaced Samples sound with 2x Filtered 1-bit DAC.

- 0.170: Changed year to 1986.

- 2nd August 2010: Mr. Do - Kiltron re-created the bezel for Poly Play, based on available pics.

- 0.132u1: Fabio Priuli fixed access violation in PolyPlay.

- 0.129u6: Phil Bennett fixed broken graphics when playing in Poly-Play.

- 0.93: Changed Custom sound to Samples.

- 0.63: Stefan Jokish fixed inserting a coin in Poly-Play before 'selecting' a game causes a hard lockup in MAME.

- 5th January 2003: Stefan Jokisch cleaned up the Poly-Play driver.

- 0.54: Changed palettesize from 64 to 10 colors.

- 0.37b12: New filtering code for the audio mixer. It is applied to audio streams generated at a sampling rate different from the sound card's one, improving quality. Some examples with a very audible difference are PolyPlay.

- 0.37b2: Martin Buchholz added 'Poly-Play' (VEB Polytechnik Karl-Marx-Stadt 1985). The Poly-Play has a simple bookmarking system which can be activated setting Bit 6 of PORTA (Summe Spiele) to low. It reads a double word from 0c00 and displays it on the screen. I currently haven't figured out how the I/O port handling for the book-mark system works. Uniquely the Poly-Play has a light organ which totally confuses you whilst playing the automaton. Bits 1-5 of PORTB control the organ but it's not emulated now. Very special thanks to the following people, each one of them spent some of their spare time to make this driver working: Juergen Oppermann and Volker Hann for electronical assistance, repair work and ROM dumping. Jan-Ole Christian from the Videogamemuseum in Berlin, which houses one of the last existing Poly-Play arcade automatons. He also provided me with schematics and service manuals.

- 18th April 2000: Martin Buchholz sent in a Poly-Play driver (the only arcade machine ever produced in GDR, the former East Germany) with thanks to Juergen Oppermann, Volker Hann and the Videogame Museum (http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/) in Berlin (especially to Jan-Ole Christian) - without them, the driver would not have been reality. The copyright holders do not seem to exist anymore.


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History


Arcade Video game published 34 years ago:

Poly-Play (c) 1985 VEB Polytechnik Karl-Marx-Stadt.

This game features 10 different games : Hase und Wolf (a "Pac-Man"-type game), Hirschjagd (similar to "Robotron 2084"), Schmetterlinge, Abfahrtslauf, Schiessbude ("Carnival" clone), Autorennen, Merkspiel, Wasserrohrbruch, Hagelnde Wolken, Der Taucher.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : U880 compatible with Zilog Z80 (@ 2.4576 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Custom (@ 2.4576 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 512 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 50.00 Hz
Palette colors : 8

Players : 1
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

2 cabinet versions existed, named ECS1 and ECS2. ESC means "Elektronischer Spielcomputer". The difference was a better cabinet for ECS2.

10 programs exist, only eight could be chosen for deployment (in EPROM-Order):
"Hase und Wolf" translates from German as 'Rabbit and Wolf', based on the Russian cartoon series 'Nu, pogodi!', popular in the GDR.
"Hirschjagd" translates from German as 'Deer Hunt'.
"Schmetterlinge" translates from German as 'Butterflies'.
"Abfahrtslauf" translates from German as 'Downhill'.
"Schiessbude" translates from German as 'Shooting Hut'.
"Autorennen" translates from German as 'Car Race'.
"Merkspiel" translates from German as 'Noticing Play'.
"Wasserrohrbruch" translates from German as 'Water Pipe Break'.
"Hagelnde Wolken" translates from German as 'Hailing Clouds'.
"Der Taucher" translates from German as 'The Diver'.

2 additional games were planned :
"Der Gärtner" translates from German as 'The Gardener'.
"Im Gewächshaus" translates from German as 'In the Greenhouse'.

The last manufactured versions, in 1989, have had the possibility of ten games.

The story goes that Poly-Play was the only arcade approved machine to be produced in GDR and they used to go into places like FDGB holiday homes and youth hostels. When the Berlin Wall came down, for some strange reason they recalled the machines to the factory and had them dismantled. A few were salvaged. There were probably about 1000-1500 made (last known serial number 1492 from 1989).

The company does still exist as 'Polytechnik Frankenberg GmbH'.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2004&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01



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