Antar

Partial

Playmatic1979playmatic.antar.1979

playmatic/antar-1979.mdplaymatic/antar-1979.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
antar

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
8–46 (21)
Solenoids
1–8 (4)

Coverage

Partial

Real evidence exists, but authoring requirements are still missing or in conflict. Verify before shipping a table.

Completion6%

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 · 15
IdentityDriver 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.

21 addresses

Switch map

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

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

Outside the matrix8 — dedicated, diagnostic or flipper-column addresses. See the table below.

21 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
8
W8 Trigger
switch.w8-trigger candidate
23
Drain
switch.drain candidate
24
W24 Target
switch.w24-target candidate
25
W25 Target
switch.w25-target candidate
26
W26 Target
switch.w26-target candidate
27
W27 Target
switch.w27-target candidate
28
W28 Trigger
switch.w28-trigger candidate
31
Kicker2
switch.kicker2 candidate
32
W32 Kicker
switch.w32-kicker candidate
33
Sw33 Spinner
switch.sw33-spinner candidate
34
W34 Trigger
switch.w34-trigger candidate
35
W35 Bumper
switch.w35-bumper candidate
36
W36 Slingshot
switch.w36-slingshot candidate
37
Kicker1
switch.kicker1 candidate
38
W38 Kicker
switch.w38-kicker candidate
41
W41 Trigger
switch.w41-trigger candidate
42
W42 Trigger
switch.w42-trigger candidate
43
W43 Trigger
switch.w43-trigger candidate
44
W44 Slingshot
switch.w44-slingshot candidate
45
W45 Slingshot
switch.w45-slingshot candidate
46
W46 Slingshot
switch.w46-slingshot candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

4
4 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Saucer
coil.saucer candidate
4
Reset Drop
coil.reset-drop candidate
5
Out Hole
coil.out-hole candidate
8
Knocker
coil.knocker 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.antar 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 antar, description "Antar", manufacturer "Playmatic", catalog year "1979".
  • No OPDB record is mapped for this driver in machines/opdb_id.csv, so the name above comes from the PinMAME catalog alone and is unverified.
  • The definition's driver list is exactly the clone tree PinMAME declares under antar; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • antar (1979, Playmatic).
  • antar2 (1979, Playmatic, clone of antar).

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
antar2Antar (alternate set) 1979antar—
antarAntar 1979——

Parent set: antar — 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.35d3011ad0f58c91

    vpxtable-scripts: Antar (Playmatic 1979)_Bigus(MOD)1.1.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Antar (Playmatic 1979)_Bigus(MOD)1.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    35d3011ad0f5…

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 15 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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