ar_xeon: MAME ROM Information. History:
Xenon (c) 1988 Arcadia Systems.
A vertically scrolling shoot-em-up from well-known Commodore Amiga coders, the 'Bitmap Brothers'. Xenon's distinguishing gameplay feature is that the player's craft could be switched between being a land-based tank and an airborne spaceship at the touch of a button.
- TECHNICAL -
Arcadia System hardware
Main CPU : 68000 (@ 7.15909 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Custom (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 671 x 216 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 4096
Players : 2
Control : 8-way Joystick
Buttons : 2
- TRIVIA -
Xenon was originally called "KellyX" during the development.
This is the first Bitmap Brothers game, a team of programmers which made some of the greatest amiga titles ever.
- SERIES -
1. Xenon (1988)
2. Xenon II (1989, Commodore Amiga)
3. Xenon 2000 - Project PCF (2002, PC [MS Windows])
- PORTS -
* Computers :
Amstrad CPC (1988)
Atari ST (1988)
Commodore Amiga (1988)
PC (1988)
Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1989)
Commodore 64 (1989)
MSX (1989)
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.89u5 [Mariusz Wojcieszek, Ernesto Corvi]
WIP:
- 0.112u2: Ernesto Corvi fixed regression in Xenon sprites.
- 6th January 2005: Mariusz Wojcieszek - Updated the Arcadia driver and Xenon is now playable.
- 0.89u5: Mariusz Wojcieszek and Ernesto Corvi added Xenon (Arcadia, V 2.3) (Arcadia Systems 1988).
- 18th July 1999: Mike Coates dumped Xenon (Arcadia, V 2.3).
LEVELS: 4
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Romset: 512 kb / 8 files / 247.4 zip
MAME XML Output:
   | <game name="ar_xeon" sourcefile="arcadia.c" romof="ar_bios"> |
   |    | <description>Xenon (Arcadia, V 2.3)</description> |
   |    | <year>1988</year> |
   |    | <manufacturer>Arcadia Systems</manufacturer> |
   |    | <biosset name="onep300" description="OnePlay 3.00" default="yes"/> |
   |    | <biosset name="onep211" description="OnePlay 2.11"/> |
   |    | <biosset name="tenp211" description="TenPlay 2.11"/> |
   |    | <biosset name="onep220" description="OnePlay 2.20"/> |
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   |    | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="68000" clock="7159090"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="amiga" name="Amiga Paula" clock="3579545"/> |
   |    | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="671" height="216" refresh="59.997000" /> |
   |    | <sound channels="2"/> |
   |    | <input players="2" buttons="2" coins="2" service="yes"> |
   |    |    | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
   |    | </input> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="DSW1 1" tag="CIA0PORTB" mask="1"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Reset" value="1" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Set" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="unsupported" palettesize="4096"/> |
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