Atarians

Partial

Atari1976atari.atarians.1976

OPDB IPDB atari/atarians-1976.mdatari/atarians-1976.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
atarians

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
9–34 (26)
Solenoids
3–18 (5)

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.

26 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
26 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
9
Trigger1
switch.trigger1 candidate
10
Target2
switch.target2 candidate
11
Target3
switch.target3 candidate
12
Trigger4
switch.trigger4 candidate
13
Trigger5
switch.trigger5 candidate
14
Trigger6
switch.trigger6 candidate
15
Trigger7
switch.trigger7 candidate
16
Target8
switch.target8 candidate
17
Target9
switch.target9 candidate
18
Trigger Top Left
switch.trigger-top-left candidate
19
Center Island Slingshot
switch.center-island-slingshot candidate
20
Trigger Open Left
switch.trigger-open-left candidate
21
Trigger Open Right
switch.trigger-open-right candidate
22
Trigger Close Left
switch.trigger-close-left candidate
23
Bumper Left
switch.bumper-left candidate
24
Bumper Right
switch.bumper-right candidate
25
Bumper Center
switch.bumper-center candidate
26
Left Slingshot Bounce
switch.left-slingshot-bounce candidate
27
Right Slingshot Bounce
switch.right-slingshot-bounce candidate
28
Kicker A
switch.kicker-a candidate
29
Kicker T
switch.kicker-t candidate
30
Kicker E
switch.kicker-e candidate
31
Kicker R
switch.kicker-r candidate
32
Kicker I
switch.kicker-i candidate
33
Kicker Bonus
switch.kicker-bonus candidate
34
Kicker EB
switch.kicker-eb candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

5
5 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
3
Kicker Bonus Out
coil.kicker-bonus-out candidate
8
Kicker EBOut
coil.kicker-ebout candidate
14
Sol Atari
coil.sol-atari candidate
17
Sol Right Gate
coil.sol-right-gate candidate
18
Sol Left Gate
coil.sol-left-gate 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.atarians 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 atarians, description "Atarians, The", manufacturer "Atari", catalog year "1976".
  • OPDB record Gry9N-MQYVj (IPDB 102) names this machine "Atarians" (Atari, manufacture date 1976-01-01); 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 atarians; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • atarianf (1976, Atari, clone of atarians).
  • atarians (1976, 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 31 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
atariansAtarians, The 1976——
atarianfAtarians, The (Free Play) 1976atarians—

Parent set: atarians — 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.aa9a3e1b8bc68733

    vpxtable-scripts: Atarians (Atari 1976).vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Atarians (Atari 1976).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    aa9a3e1b8bc6…

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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