Road Runner

Partial

Atari1979atari.road-runner.1979

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
roadrunr

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
13–59 (25)

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.

25 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.
25 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
13
Conf13
switch.conf13 candidate
16
Conf16
switch.conf16 candidate
17
Conf17
switch.conf17 candidate
18
Conf18
switch.conf18 candidate
19
Conf19
switch.conf19 candidate
24
Conf24
switch.conf24 candidate
25
Conf25
switch.conf25 candidate
26
Conf26
switch.conf26 candidate
27
Conf27
switch.conf27 candidate
28
Conf28
switch.conf28 candidate
36
Conf36
switch.conf36 candidate
37
Conf37
switch.conf37 candidate
40
Conf40
switch.conf40 candidate
41
Conf41
switch.conf41 candidate
42
Conf42
switch.conf42 candidate
43
Conf43
switch.conf43 candidate
44
Conf44
switch.conf44 candidate
45
Conf45
switch.conf45 candidate
49
Conf49
switch.conf49 candidate
50
Conf50
switch.conf50 candidate
51
Conf51
switch.conf51 candidate
56
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
57
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
58
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
59
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot 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.roadrunr 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 roadrunr, description "Road Runner (Prototype)", manufacturer "Atari", catalog year "1979".
  • OPDB record G421X-ME0nK (IPDB 3517) names this machine "Road Runner" (Atari, manufacture date 1979-01-01); 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 roadrunr; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • roadrunr (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 25 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
roadrunrRoad Runner (Prototype) 1979

Parent set: roadrunr — 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

    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640
  • VPX script

    vpx-script.30f91f439099524e

    vpxtable-scripts: Road Runner (Atari 1979) - Remastered v3.0.vbs

    by
    Authors credited in Road Runner (Atari 1979) - Remastered v3.0.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    30f91f439099…

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.