Charlie’s Angels

Partial

Gottlieb1978gottlieb.charlies-angels.1978

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/charlies-angels-1978.mdgottlieb/charlies-angels-1978.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
charlies

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
13–54 (14)
Lamps
1–36 (36)

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.

14 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
14 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
13
Sw13
switch.sw13 candidate
14
Sw14
switch.sw14 candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
22
Sw22
switch.sw22 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
40
Sw40
switch.sw40 candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 candidate
42
Sw42
switch.sw42 candidate
43
Sw43
switch.sw43 candidate
44
Sw44
switch.sw44 candidate
50
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
54
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate

Controlled devices

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

Lamps

36

Lamp 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.
36 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Li1a
lamp.li1a candidate
2
Li2
lamp.li2 candidate
3
Li3
lamp.li3 candidate
4
Li4
lamp.li4 candidate
5
Li5
lamp.li5 candidate
6
Li6
lamp.li6 candidate
7
Li7
lamp.li7 candidate
8
Li8
lamp.li8 candidate
9
Li9
lamp.li9 candidate
10
Li10
lamp.li10 candidate
11
Li11
lamp.li11 candidate
12
Li12
lamp.li12 candidate
13
Li13
lamp.li13 candidate
14
Li14
lamp.li14 candidate
15
Li15
lamp.li15 candidate
16
Li16
lamp.li16 candidate
17
Li17
lamp.li17 candidate
18
Li18
lamp.li18 candidate
19
Li19
lamp.li19 candidate
20
Li20
lamp.li20 candidate
21
Li21
lamp.li21 candidate
22
Li22
lamp.li22 candidate
23
Li23
lamp.li23 candidate
24
Li24
lamp.li24 candidate
25
Li25
lamp.li25 candidate
26
Li26
lamp.li26 candidate
27
Li27
lamp.li27 candidate
28
Li28
lamp.li28 candidate
29
Li29
lamp.li29 candidate
30
Li30
lamp.li30 candidate
31
Li31
lamp.li31 candidate
32
Li32
lamp.li32 candidate
33
Li33
lamp.li33 candidate
34
Li34
lamp.li34 candidate
35
Li35
lamp.li35 candidate
36
Li36
lamp.li36 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.charlies 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 charlies, description "Charlie's Angels", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1978".
  • OPDB record G5Woz-MKNq6 (IPDB 492) names this machine "Charlie’s Angels" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1978-01-01); 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 charlies; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • charlies (1978, Gottlieb, clone of gts1).

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 50 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
charliesCharlie's Angels 1978gts1—

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.3519630698a68371

    vpxtable-scripts: Charlie's Angels 1.0.0.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Charlie's Angels 1.0.0.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    3519630698a6…

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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