game
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title Cannonball (Atari, prototype)
set name cball
manufacturer Atari
year 1976
genre Misc. (hof)
category Misc. (hof)
driver status preliminary
driver source cball.c
snapshots PS: in game | title / MW: in game / CT: in game | title / EJ: in game
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rating

68.5% after 19 votes
 
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display
colour emulation preliminary
palette 6
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 256x224
frequency 60.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation preliminary
channels mono
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controls
players 1
nplayers 2P alt
controls other
buttons 2
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu M6800 @ 0.756MHz
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data
version added .083
last change(s) none
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
canball.1e  1024  0b34823b  cball    0db6b9f78f7c07ee7d35f2bf048ba61fe43b1e26 
canball.1l  1024  b43ca275  cball    a03e03f6366877cfdcec71030a5fb2c5171c8d8a 
canball.1f  1024  29b4e1f7  cball    8cef944b6e0153c304aa2d4cfdc530b8a4eef021 
canball.1k  1024  a4d1cf12  cball    99de6470efd16e57d72019e065f55bc740f3c7fc 
canball.1h  1024  13f55937  cball    7514c27e60944c4e00992c8ecbc5115f8ff948bb 
canball.1j  1024  5b905d69  cball    2408dd6e44c51c0c9bdb82d2d33826c03f8308c4 
canball.6m  512    cball  no dump   
canball.6l  512  5b1c9e88  cball    6e9630db9907170c53942a21302bcf8b721590a3 
canball.5l  512  3d0d1569  cball    1dfcf5cf9468d476c4b7d76a261c6fec87a99f93 
canball.5k  512  c5fdd3c8  cball    5aae148439683ff1cf0005a810c81fdcbed525c3 
canball.6h  256  b8094b4c  cball    82dc6799a19984f3b204ee3aeeb007e55afc8be3 
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cabinet art
art no cabinet, marquee, flyer, control panel or PCB images found
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additional information
info 0.83 [Stefan Jokisch]

NOTE:
  • A fix for the missing gfx rom can you find at http://www.mameworld.net/mameinfo/wip
WIP:
  • 7th June 2004: MASH - Completed the missing gfx rom with the characters and numbers roms from Canyon Bomber and Sky Diver (Atari 1977/8). The cannon and gun gfx-halfs are guess work.
  • 0.83: Stefan Jokisch added Cannonball (Atari, prototype) (Atari 1976). One ROM is missing from the only known PCB causing some GFX problems. The author mentions one only test unit.
  • 3rd June 2004: Stefan Jokisch sent in a driver for Cannonball (Atari, prototype), but it's missing a graphics ROM, causing some graphics glitches.
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Romset: 9 kb / 11 files / 4.3 zip
history Cannonball (c) 1976 Atari.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : M6800 (@ 756 Khz)


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette Colors : 6


Players : 1

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


Cannonball was Owen's first game at Atari. It is not known for sure if this game was ever produced, as there is no documentation or flyers of the game that have surfaced. Owen Rubin seems to think that maybe it WAS produced; however, he is unsure.


Owen wrote Cannonball while sitting in his small office at a Model 33 teletype connected to a Motorola MicBug 6800 processor, both of which were connected to simple videogame hardware. He hand-assembled the entire program--it was only 2K, but still took several months--including self-test, saving the code on punched paper tape. When his boss reviewed the game and asked for code listings, Owen said, "What listings?" It turns out that Owen didn't know about the two computer operators, who took the listings that the designers/programmers wrote up, typed them into the PDP-1 computers, ran them to make sure they were error-free, then return a paper tape to the designer.


- STAFF -
  • Designed & Programmed by : Owen Rubin
  • - PORTS -
  • * Consoles :
  • Atari 2600 (Human Cannonball)
  • - SOURCES -
  • Game's rom.
  • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=cannonball&page=detail&id=3468&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
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cheats
cheats
code comments
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  ------------------------------:REASON 01
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  There are no cheats for this
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  game as it didn't work the
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  last time it was tested. If
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  the game now works please
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  request cheats for it on the
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  cheat forums.
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  ------------------------------:REASON 01
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