Time Line

Partial

Gottlieb1980gottlieb.time-line.1980

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/time-line-1980.mdgottlieb/time-line-1980.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
timelin7timeline

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
2–73 (27)
Solenoids
1–9 (6)

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.

27 addresses

Switch map

Column × row matrix — the address is column·row.

used unused
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Hover or tap an address to identify it.

Outside the matrix2, 3, 4 — dedicated, diagnostic or flipper-column addresses. See the table below.

27 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
2
W2 Dropped
switch.w2-dropped candidate
3
W3 Dropped
switch.w3-dropped candidate
4
W4 Dropped
switch.w4-dropped candidate
12
W12 Dropped
switch.w12-dropped candidate
13
W13 Dropped
switch.w13-dropped candidate
14
W14 Dropped
switch.w14-dropped candidate
21
W21
switch.w21 candidate
22
W22 Dropped
switch.w22-dropped candidate
23
W23 Dropped
switch.w23-dropped candidate
24
W24 Dropped
switch.w24-dropped candidate
32
W32 Dropped
switch.w32-dropped candidate
33
W33 Dropped
switch.w33-dropped candidate
34
W34 Dropped
switch.w34-dropped candidate
41
W41
switch.w41 candidate
42
W42 Dropped
switch.w42-dropped candidate
43
W43
switch.w43 candidate
44
W44 Dropped
switch.w44-dropped candidate
51
W51
switch.w51 candidate
52
W52
switch.w52 candidate
53
W53
switch.w53 candidate
61
W61
switch.w61 candidate
62
W62
switch.w62 candidate
63
W63
switch.w63 candidate
67
Sol Out Hole
switch.sol-out-hole candidate
71
Dingwalla
switch.dingwalla candidate
72
W72
switch.w72 candidate
73
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

6
6 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Braised
coil.braised candidate
2
Mraised
coil.mraised candidate
5
Lkicker
coil.lkicker candidate
6
Traised
coil.traised candidate
8
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
9
Sol Out Hole
coil.sol-out-hole 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.timeline 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 timeline, description "Time Line", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1980".
  • OPDB record Gr13q-MXrjY (IPDB 2564) names this machine "Time Line" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1980-01-01); 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 timeline; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • timelin7 (2008, Oliver, clone of timeline).
  • timeline (1980, Gottlieb, clone of gts80s).

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 33 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
timelin7Time Line (7-digit conversion) 2008timeline—
timelineTime Line 1980gts80s—

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.20d8980427402507

    vpxtable-scripts: Time Line (Gottlieb 1980).vbs

    0c036bb61b4blines (Gottlieb 1980
    by
    Authors credited in Time Line (Gottlieb 1980).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    20d898042740…

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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