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title FAX
set name fax
manufacturer Exidy
year 1983
genre Quiz (hof)
category Quiz / English (hof)
driver status good
driver source exidy.c
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rating

68% after 31 votes
 
clones FAX 2
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display
colour emulation good
palette 8
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 256x256
frequency 59.996811Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls other
buttons 4
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu M6502 @ 0.705562MHz
cpu M6502 @ 0.894886MHz
audio Custom
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data
version added .033b06
last change(s) .085
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
fxl8-13a.32  4096  8e30bf6b  fax    1fdf010da0258bc038554cf33c26e539a1f6b648 
fxl8-12a.32  4096  60a41ff1  fax    1703dbedd09354d89c6014644d0ffe13ec657b8b 
fxl8-11a.32  4096  2c9cee8a  fax    169045b4d840730cfbaa0b9a8a8d82907ea09d0c 
fxl8-10a.32  4096  9b03938f  fax    af4c27b06a1f1be917316910b88d026b67cc60c0 
fxl8-9a.32  4096  fb869f62  fax    cea6ff423c60662a1b36e9565940432707d5299b 
fxl8-8a.32  4096  db3470bc  fax    7786f84ab41765ea91ab241d14a207044eda0e93 
fxl8-7a.32  4096  1471fef5  fax    89308f3c2a0d7ea699e99622d37c5c95e3eaaf95 
fxl8-6a.32  4096  812e39f3  fax    41c99f8483c69617f9c8dd82f979630ea9190454 
fxd-1c.64  8192  fd7e3137  fax    6fda53737cd7c886c66c60436ae3ed5c62e6b178 
fxd-2c.64  8192  e78cb16f  fax    d58dfa2385368ccf00ecfbaeccaf5ba82ef7da9b 
fxd-3c.64  8192  57a94c6f  fax    fc27fe805c4cc29f797bfc0e4cd13a570ac5c1ec 
fxd-4c.64  8192  9036c5a2  fax    b7a01e4002f615702cb691764cfae93707bf3c0f 
fxd-5c.64  8192  38c03405  fax    c490252825dc3c4bf91255c7cb70a5ead92de85b 
fxd-6c.64  8192  f48fc308  fax    bfaf43e57a4d92b593d51d8cd61fe4d5c06e836c 
fxd-7c.64  8192  cf93b924  fax    892e6e6aa33bbcd271f5e0a63c1e8393df62f360 
fxd-8c.64  8192  607b48da  fax    6c8f2f207f3dd936c529b86cef917a0f0699a21c 
fxd-1b.64  8192  62872d4f  fax    c020fdeae6c2e7d04c16048fdaa99ecf3e40af31 
fxd-2b.64  8192  625778d0  fax    6c8d6b50653bff3774f5ccef0e000a2ef3f7030c 
fxd-3b.64  8192  c3473dee  fax    8675f9b93bbbae4f5a5682c5b1623afeeacc0a4b 
fxd-4b.64  8192  e39a15f5  fax    43b04cc2e4750b649116ade5b1004c2580293134 
fxd-5b.64  8192  101a9d70  fax    2b839cd707e03b0e50037e1ffabcb8fe375dc4c0 
fxd-6b.64  8192  374a8f05  fax    ec41470932823242fff36ab6e6f158fa5c07d0a8 
fxd-7b.64  8192  f7e7f824  fax    1bed1ee07032b25675ace612a883cba4ab4b2f77 
fxd-8b.64  8192  8f1a5287  fax    a1102d49bacb25887eaa67ae64bcf64c8cad94fe 
fxd-1a.64  8192  fc5e6344  fax    c61aad5100819f2fe98c3a159b64739fa6322d09 
fxd-2a.64  8192  43cf60b3  fax    5169196d0a95450801b3a57703cb9f2861a25948 
fxd-3a.64  8192  6b7d29cb  fax    fd4006efd24b33f8e2baf7f97d4b776d5ef90959 
fxd-4a.64  8192  b9de3c2d  fax    229f9f0762d4d659acf516c2c1a42e70d2f98652 
fxd-5a.64  8192  67285bc6  fax    f929c916fb19dbc91fc3a75dfed6375b63cb2043 
fxd-6a.64  8192  ba67b7b2  fax    12265f678b1e4dfc3b36a964f78b0103112753ee 
fxa2-5a.16  2048  7c525aec  fax    f3afd3bfc0ba4265106e6ca217d113d23ad66016 
fxa2-6a.16  2048  2b3bfc44  fax    7e3b9133916c8121b2145942155601b3ade420da 
fxa2-7a.16  2048  578c62b7  fax    1bcb987e8730c001b7339c3dfab2467bf76421c7 
fxl1-11d.32  2048  62083db2  fax    0c6e90b73419bff53f991e66d4faa9495c7d8e09 
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cabinet art
cabinet fax.png
control panel fax.png
flyer fax.png
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additional information
info 0.33b6 [Mike Balfour]

NOTE:
  • The Fax board has two ROM sockets which were apparently never populated (fxd-7a.64, fxd-8a.64).
WIP:
  • 0.116u2: Renamed (faxa) to (fax2).
  • 0.113u4: Changed description to 'FAX'.
  • 0.84u6: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone Fax (alt. questions). Added new gfx1 rom ($0) to Fax.
  • 0.37b5: Removed Samples sound.
  • 8th March 1999: Eric Hustvedt added another Fax clone.
  • 0.35b2: Fixed sound with new cpu2 rom ($6800).
  • 0.34RC1: Added Samples and Custom sound.
  • 0.33b6: Mike Balfour added Fax (Exidy 1983). Sound doesn't work because one ROM is missing.
LEVELS: 33

Romset: 216 kb / 34 files / 193 zip
history Fax (c) 1983 Exidy.


Who? When? What? Where? Why? Fax is a trivia game that asks questions about : general knowledge, sports, history and entertainment.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : M6502 (@ 705.562 Khz)

Sound CPU : M6502 (@ 894.886 Khz)

Sound Chips : Custom (@ 894.886 Khz)


Players : 2

Buttons : 4 (A, B, C, and D)


- TRIVIA -


Released in June 1983.


Fax came in what was essentially a jukebox cabinet (with a black and woodgrain finish). This was probably because Exidy had hoped to sell this machine to a different market than its normal arcade games. It has a 9in. monitor mounted in the center (with a 'Fax' logo on the monitor bezel), and a row of buttons on each side of the screen. Sales of this title were limited a bit by its $2495 price tag (USD), which was a good $500 over the average arcade game price at the time.


This game used an advanced (proprietary), compression algorithm to hold nearly 3700 questions in a tiny amount of EPROM space (roughly 128K, which was still a huge amount of storage in 1983, which was why this game was so expensive). Exidy also sold several EPROM replacement kits that provided new questions, but they sold very poorly, and are nearly impossible to find today.


- SERIES -
  1. Fax (1983)
  2. Fax II
    3. - STAFF -
    • Written by : Vic Tolomei, Larry Hutcherson
    • Art by : Mike Craven
    • - PORTS -
    • * Computers :
    • Apple II
    • - SOURCES -
    • Game's rom.
    • Machine's picture.
    • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=fax&page=detail&id=822&o=2
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code comments
20800000:8B9A:000000AD:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time
00010000:00A4:00000099:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time (2/2)
000000E6:00A7:41000000:FFFFFFFF  Display the Correct Answer:Correct Answer
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