Hercules

Partial

Atari1979atari.hercules.1979

OPDB IPDB atari/hercules-1979.mdatari/hercules-1979.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
hercules

1 ROM set 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
12–57 (22)
Solenoids
3–17 (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.

22 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.
22 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
12
Roll3
switch.roll3 candidate
13
Roll1
switch.roll1 candidate
18
Roll6
switch.roll6 candidate
19
Roll7
switch.roll7 candidate
20
Roll8
switch.roll8 candidate
21
Lane1
switch.lane1 candidate
24
Lane2
switch.lane2 candidate
25
Lane3
switch.lane3 candidate
26
Roll2
switch.roll2 candidate
28
Left Out Lane
switch.left-out-lane candidate
29
Left In Lane
switch.left-in-lane candidate
32
Right In Lane
switch.right-in-lane candidate
33
Right Out Lane
switch.right-out-lane candidate
34
S L Target
switch.s-l-target candidate
35
S Top P
switch.s-top-p candidate
36
S R Target
switch.s-r-target candidate
37
S Top Y
switch.s-top-y candidate
40
Spinner1
switch.spinner1 candidate
52
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
53
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
56
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
57
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot 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
3
Knocker
coil.knocker candidate
4
RJet
coil.rjet candidate
5
LJet
coil.ljet candidate
8
RSling
coil.rsling candidate
9
LSling
coil.lsling candidate
10
Knocker2
coil.knocker2 candidate
11
Knocker3
coil.knocker3 candidate
12
Knocker4
coil.knocker4 candidate
13
Knocker5
coil.knocker5 candidate
15
Ball Release
coil.ball-release candidate
16
Enable
coil.enable candidate
17
CLo
coil.clo 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.hercules 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 hercules, description "Hercules", manufacturer "Atari", catalog year "1979".
  • OPDB record G4NOx-MyNYZ (IPDB 1155) names this machine "Hercules" (Atari, manufacture date 1979-05-01); 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 hercules; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • hercules (1979, 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 34 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
herculesHercules 1979——

Parent set: hercules — 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.006914a5da06e874

    vpxtable-scripts: Hercules_wip1_6.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Hercules_wip1_6.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    006914a5da06…

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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