Airborne Avenger

Partial

Atari1977atari.airborne-avenger.1977

OPDB IPDB atari/airborne-avenger-1977.mdatari/airborne-avenger-1977.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
aavenger

2 ROM sets resolve to this machine. Clones share the definition unless a hardware difference is listed.

Controller platform
Not determined
Displays

No display inventory recorded yet.

Address space
Switches
21–60 (23)
Solenoids
2–17 (12)

Coverage

Partial

Real evidence exists, but authoring requirements are still missing or in conflict. Verify before shipping a table.

Completion13%

Progress is derived from the fixed author-readiness requirements. It helps rank unfinished work, but only a 100% author-ready definition passes the publication gate.

Catalog Identity
validated
Address Enumeration
unknown
Semantic Naming
unknown
Physical Wiring
unknown
Mechanisms
unknown
Variant Coverage
candidate
Recreation Knowledge
unknown
Still missing · 14
Driver MappingController PlatformInput EnumerationInput SemanticsOutput EnumerationOutput SemanticsDisplay InventoryMechanism InventoryMechanism BehaviorPolarityVariant DifferencesRecreation NotesProvenanceSpatial Placement

Switches

The addresses PinMAME reports as closed. Numbers are the public API values, not matrix hardware pins.

23 addresses

Switch map

Sequential addresses, grouped in columns of eight.

used unused
 
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7
1–8
9–16
17–24
25–32
33–40
41–48
49–56
57–64
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
23 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
21
Midtarget
switch.midtarget candidate
22
Target3
switch.target3 candidate
23
Target2
switch.target2 candidate
24
Target1
switch.target1 candidate
34
Out3
switch.out3 candidate
35
Out2
switch.out2 candidate
36
Out1
switch.out1 candidate
37
In2
switch.in2 candidate
38
In1
switch.in1 candidate
39
Out4
switch.out4 candidate
40
Out5
switch.out5 candidate
42
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
43
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
44
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
45
Spinner
switch.spinner candidate
49
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
50
Lmsling
switch.lmsling candidate
51
TLsling
switch.tlsling candidate
56
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
57
Bottomsling
switch.bottomsling candidate
58
Midswitch
switch.midswitch candidate
59
Midswitch B
switch.midswitch-b candidate
60
T3000unhit1
switch.t3000unhit1 candidate

Controlled devices

Everything the ROM can energise, grouped the way a table author builds it.

Coils, magnets & motors

12
12 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
2
BJet
coil.bjet candidate
3
Gate
coil.gate candidate
4
TLJet
coil.tljet candidate
5
Eject
coil.eject candidate
8
Saucer1
coil.saucer1 candidate
9
LSling
coil.lsling candidate
10
Out Hole
coil.out-hole candidate
12
REject
coil.reject candidate
13
RSling
coil.rsling candidate
14
Saucer2
coil.saucer2 candidate
16
TRJet
coil.trjet candidate
17
Knocker
coil.knocker candidate

Recreation notes

Working knowledge that has no schema field yet — edition differences, tuning values, pitfalls.

Coverage: partial - machine identity plus candidate-only I/O attachments. Playfield devices, wiring, mechanisms, and behavior are evidenced only as unverified candidates.

This record was promoted from the generated catalog stub stub.pinmame.aavenger by the catalog-wide identity pass of 2026-08-29. The promotion resolves machine identity and carries the catalog's residual driver grouping over unchanged, the platform and device attachments below were added by the 2026-08-29/30 candidate passes and assert nothing beyond candidate provenance. Every requirement in the definition's coverage.missing is genuinely outstanding.

Identity

  • PinMAME catalog: root driver aavenger, description "Airborne Avenger", manufacturer "Atari", catalog year "1977".
  • OPDB record G4dZZ-MKNzE (IPDB 33) names this machine "Airborne Avenger" (Atari, manufacture date 1977-01-09); the resolved identity rests on the agreement of the PinMAME catalog and this reviewed mapping.
  • The definition's driver list is exactly the clone tree PinMAME declares under aavenger; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • aavengef (2024, Atari, clone of aavenger).
  • aavenger (1977, Atari).

VPX script candidates (candidate)

  • 1 retained community table script(s) declare this machine's driver; their extracted switch/lamp/solenoid/GI candidates are carried as 35 candidate devices. When curator work weighs sources, a retained script outranks emulator-derived candidates for runtime semantics, but every device here is still a candidate until a known-working table is verified against this exact physical machine.

What a curator must establish next

Controller platform from the pinned PinMAME driver source; full input, output, and display enumeration with semantic names; physical wiring and polarity; mechanism inventory and behavior; variant differences across the clone tree; recreation knowledge from a manual, schematic, or known-working table; runtime provenance; and a normalized spatial placement for every physical device. No manual, schematic, or runtime-harness evidence is retained for this machine yet; the candidate sections above are the only retained I/O evidence so far.

ROM sets

Every driver that resolves to this physical machine.

ROM set Description Year Parent Hardware
aavengefAirborne Avenger (Free Play) 2024aavenger—
aavengerAirborne Avenger 1977——

Parent set: aavenger — clones share this definition unless a hardware difference is noted.

Evidence

Every claim above traces to one of these. When they disagree: a known-working VPX script wins on controller addresses and causality, the manual wins on wiring and construction, pinned PinMAME wins on emulator routing and display layout.

  • PinMAME catalog

    BSD-3-Clause

    pinmame.catalog.8371478a7640

    PinmameGetGames

    8371478a7640
    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.617f4d9fd30aa8af

    vpxtable-scripts: Airborne Avenger (Atari 1977) 1.3.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Airborne Avenger (Atari 1977) 1.3.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    617f4d9fd30a…

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 14 unmet requirements, listed under Coverage above. Fixes belong in the definition itself — editing on GitHub forks it for you and opens the pull request.

Cite a source for anything you change — a manual page, a line in a working VPX script, PinMAME source, or a reading from the machine's own service menu. Claims without provenance cannot be validated.

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