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title Ameisenbaer (German)
set name anteatg
manufacturer TV-Tuning (F.E.G. license)
year 1983
genre Maze (hof)
category Maze (hof)
driver status good
driver source scobra.c
snapshots MW: in game | parent / CT: in game | title | parent / EJ: parent / PS: in game | title | parent
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rating

72.2% after 41 votes
 
parent Anteater
other clones The Anteater (UK)
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display
colour emulation good
palette 99
display type raster
orientation vertical
resolution 224x256
frequency 60.606061Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P alt
controls 4 way joystick
buttons 1
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu Z80 @ 3.072MHz
cpu Z80 @ 1.78975MHz
audio AY-3-8910A @ 1.78975MHz
audio AY-3-8910A @ 1.78975MHz
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data
version added .082
last change(s) none
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
prg_2.bin  8192  2ba793a8  anteatg    a97c96dcd55804d3b41856ece6477ec1c1e45892 
prg_1.bin  8192  7a798af5  anteatg    b4c8672c92b207a7a334dd3b78e57537b7d99b71 
ra4-5c  2048  87300b4f  anteater    b81b685ac1d353ff1cd40b876a7478b87b85e7a9 
ra4-5d  2048  af4e5ffe  anteater    62717a233cf9f58267af4a9e1c80479b373ab317 
gfx_1.bin  2048  1e2824b1  anteatg    9527937db618505181f4d5a22bc532977a767232 
gfx_2.bin  2048  784319b3  anteatg    0c3612a428d0906b07b35782cc0f84fda13aab73 
colr6f.cpu  32  fce333c7  anteater    f63a214dc47c5e7c80db000b0b6a261ca8da6629 
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cabinet art
cabinet anteater.png anteater.png
marquee anteater.png
control panel anteater.png
flyer anteater.png
PCB anteater.png
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additional information
info 0.25 [Mirko Buffoni, Fabio Buffoni, James R. Twine, Chris Hardy]

NOTE:
  • Cocktail mode doesn't working due to bug in game code.
WIP:
  • 0.125: Aaron Giles fixed loud and clipped music.
  • 0.124u1: Added Discrete sound. Changed visible area to 224x768 and palettesize to 32 colors. Removed 3x 'Unknown' dipswitches.
  • 0.90u3: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone The Anteater (UK).
  • 0.82u2: MASH fixed memory map of clone Ameisenbaer (German) and Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed input and dipswitches - Game now playable. The game has a strange memory map, maybe a kind of protection (!).
  • 0.82: Added clone Anteater (German).
  • 0.53: Changed palettesize from 100 to 99 colors.
  • 0.37b16: Fixed gfx1 roms addresses.
  • 0.35b13: Added new color prom ($0) to Ant Eater.
  • 0.26a: Morten Eriksen added hiscore save in AntEater.
  • 0.26: Fixed a setting in Ant Eater dipswitch. Free play switch doesn't work.
  • 0.25: Added Ant Eater (Stern 1982). Mirko Buffoni decrypted the garbled graphics of AntEater which is now fully playable. Fabio Buffoni improved the decode routines with thrilling code. Issues: Colors are wrong, unless someone provides a good set of screenshots to study. Don't know where coin counter is located. The game requires 4 credits to start.
LEVELS: 100

Other Emulators:
  • VAntAGE
Recommended Games:
Romset: 25 kb / 9 files / 14.6 zip
history Ameisenbaer (c) 1983 TV-Tuning 2000.


A maze game where you play an anteater that elongates his sticky tongue through maze-like anthills eating ants, other bugs and insects.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)

Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

Sound Chips : (2x) AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)


Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz

Palette Colors : 99


Players : 2

Control : 4-way joystick

Buttons : 1


- TRIVIA -


Licensed to F.E.G.


Ameisenbaer is known outside Germany as "Anteater".


- STAFF -
  • Designed and programmed by : Chris Oberth
  • - PORTS -
  • * Consoles :
  • Atari 2600 (1983, "Anteater")
  • - SOURCES -
  • Game's rom.
  • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=ameisenbaer&page=detail&id=3473&o=2
resource links view in MAWS
view in CAESAR
view high score and replay at MARP
view in Progetto EMMA (Italian)
view in arcade-history.com
view in arcade-history.com
view in GameFAQs
view in KLOV
view in System16
view in The Arcade Flyer Archive
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cheats
cheats
code comments
00000000:04EE:00000099:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Credits
00000000:0A85:000000C8:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time
00000000:0A65:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives
00000001:0AB2:00000001:FFFFFFFF  One Dot to Finish Level Now!
00010001:0A69:00000000:FFFFFFFF  One Dot to Finish Level Now! (2/2)
00000301:0A66:00000062:FFFFFFFF  Select current level
00000303:0A66:00000062:FFFFFFFF  Select next level
  This cheat makes it easy to
  complete each level on the 2nd
  attempt. There will only be the
  spider to worry about! Use this
  cheat with Infinite Lives.
00000000:0678:00000001:FFFFFFFF  2nd Level Attempt always easy
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