Circa 1933

Partial
Completion13%

Fascination Int.1979fascination-int.circa-1933.1979 Updated 2026-08-30 1 of 3 editions

OPDB IPDB fascination-int/circa-1933-1979.mdfascination-int/circa-1933-1979.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
circa33

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
1–24 (13)

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.

13 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
13 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
2
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
3
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
6
Sling4
switch.sling4 candidate
7
Right Slingshot
switch.right-slingshot candidate
15
Left Slingshot
switch.left-slingshot candidate
16
Trigger5
switch.trigger5 candidate
17
Trigger8
switch.trigger8 candidate
18
Trigger9
switch.trigger9 candidate
21
Trigger4
switch.trigger4 candidate
22
Trigger1
switch.trigger1 candidate
23
Trigger3
switch.trigger3 candidate
24
Trigger2
switch.trigger2 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.circa33 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 circa33, description "Circa 1933", manufacturer "Fascination Int.", catalog year "1979".
  • OPDB record G4XD3-MJdVN (IPDB 514) names this machine "Circa 1933" (Fascination Game, manufacture date 1979-02-01); 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 circa33; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • circa33 (1979, Fascination Int., clone of allied).

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 13 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
circa33Circa 1933 1979allied—

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.f275711dd137822a

    vpxtable-scripts: Circa 1933 (Allied Leisure 1979).vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Circa 1933 (Allied Leisure 1979).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    f275711dd137…

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 14 unmet requirements, listed under Missing data below. 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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Other editions

Take Five / Circa 1933 / The Entertainer shipped in 3 editions with different playfields. Compare what each one actually has before building against this definition.

All 3 editions of Take Five / Circa 1933 / The Entertainer, side by side

Missing data

What this game definition still needs to reach 100% and become author-ready.

  • ROM compatibility

    Verify which PinMAME drivers and firmware variants belong to this physical machine.

  • Controller hardware

    Identify the controller platform and validate its public address and routing rules.

  • Complete input inventory

    Account for every switch, service input and diagnostic address, including unused positions.

  • Input functions

    Validate which physical sensor or cabinet control each input represents and when it activates.

  • Complete output inventory

    Account for every coil, motor, lamp, flasher and general-illumination circuit, including unused addresses.

  • Output functions

    Validate the physical device, function and fitted quantity behind each output binding.

  • Displays

    Verify every display, its layout and its controller bindings.

  • Mechanism inventory

    Document every mechanism, its moving parts, actuators, sensors and connections.

  • Mechanism behavior

    Validate mechanism operation, ball paths, home positions, startup and reset behavior.

  • Switch construction and polarity

    Verify normally open or closed contacts and how PinMAME delivers their active states.

  • Edition and firmware differences

    Document supported hardware and firmware differences without combining incompatible editions.

  • Recreation knowledge

    Complete the source-backed behavior and assembly notes needed to recreate the machine.

  • Evidence and sources

    Back the remaining claims with attributable sources, exact locators, retained excerpts and verified hashes.

  • Physical device locations

    Establish validated playfield locations for every physical sensor, actuator and light emitter, including bulb counts and justified projections.

Missing locations · 13