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(Pinball Division is out of business)

TECHNICAL SERVICE BULLETIN 95-016a

DATE:                                       DECEMBER 19, 1995

SUBJECT:                                VERSION  V1.06 CPU & SOUND SOFTWARE UPDATE

TO:                                           ALL DISTRIBUTORS

GAME:                                      PINBALL MAGIC(tm)

AFFECTS S/N’s:                       ALL S/N’S

THIS BULLETIN SUMMARIZES CPU SOFTWARE VERSIONS V1.04, V1.04.1 & V1.05.  THESE VERSIONS WERE NOT GENERALLY RELEASED.  THEREFORE, CPU V1.06 REFLECTS AND INCLUDES ALL VERSIONS OF SOFTWARE.

CPU

REPLACE CPU EPROM’s U1L AND U1H WITH THE NEW SOFTWARE.

THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF CHANGES THAT HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED IN SOFTWARE.

CHANGES IMPLEMENTED WITH V1.04

* CHANGES IN B1-01 STANDARD ADJUSTMENTS MENU.

Adj V1.03 V1.04
B1-11 PLAY MODE FREE PLAY [YES-NO]
B1-12 SOL. VOLTAGE PERCENT PLAY MODE
B1-13 SHOW MESSAGE OF THE DAY SOL. VOLTAGE PERCENT
B1-14 FLIPPER STRENGTH SHOW MESSAGE OF THE DAY
B1-15 TICKETS/CREDIT FLIPPER STRENGTH
B1-16+ XXX DISPENSER TYPE [NONE/TICKET/TOKEN]
B1-16a XXX DISPENSER/CREDIT 0/99
B1-16b XXX END OF GAME SCORE
B1-17 XXX REPLAY INDICATOR
B1-18 XXX SHOW CREDIT FRACTIONS [YES-NO]
B1-19 XXX ALLOW BUY IN [YES-NO]

* [B1-12] PLAYMODE, UPDATE TOURNAMENT MODE.

ADD: XBALL, ON OR OFF, TOURNAMENT MODE WILL DISABLE THE HIGH SCORE TO DATE,

REPLAY, AND MATCH.  THE LAST GAME SCORE WILL ALWAYS BE SHOWN AFTER THE GAME.

* [B4-01] FRENCH COINAGE, DELETE THE FOLLOWING CREDIT COIN  [FR 1/3, 2/5, 5/10, 11/20] AND [FRANCE 1/3. 2/5, 5/10].

* [B4-01] UNITED KINGDOM COINAGE,  ADD THE FOLLOWING CREDIT COIN [U.K.,3/£1] AND [U.K., 1/50p].

* REPORTS MENU ‘E3’ HAS CHANGED TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

Adj Desciption Values
E3-01+ INSTALL DEVICE GENERIC ASCII/ O’NEIL MICROFLASH/ NSM DATAPRINT 3000, PRINT/ NSM DATAPRINT, SAVE/ CITIZEN 560/562/ CUSTOM
E3-01A DEVICE TYPE GENERIC/ O’NEIL MICROFLASH/ NSM DATA PRINTER/ CITIZEN 560/562
E3-01B DEVICE TYPE CUSTOM REPORT YES/ NO
E3-01A HOT PLUG QUERY NONE/ 3 ASCII NULLS/ ASCII DCI
E3-01D HOT PLUG RESPONSE
E3-01E SAVE REPORT YES/ NO
E3-01F BAUD RATE 300/ 600/ 1200/ 2400/ 4800/ 9600/ 19200
E3-01G END OF LINE CR LF/ CR/ LF
E3-01H CHARACTERS PER LINE 24 - 80
E3-01I CTS HANDSHAKE YES/ NO
E3-01J XON / XOFF HANDSHAKE YES/ NO
E3-01K DSR HANDSHAKE YES/ NO
E3-01L EOL / CTS HANDSHAKE YES/ NO
E3-02+ OUTPUT FORMAT FORMATTED/ DELIMITED
E3-02a EOL / CTS HANDSHAKE YES/ NO
E3-02b TEXT QUALIFIER DOUBLE QUOTE/ SINGLE QUOTE

* GERMANY DEFAULTS TO NSM DATAPRINT 3000, PRINT.

* FRANCE DEFAULTS TO CITIZEN 560/562 PRINTER.

* ALL OTHERS DEFAULT TO O’NEIL MICROFLASH PRINTER.

* HISTOGRAM REPORTS ADDED FOR PRINTER USE.

* ‘ALLOW BUY IN’ ADJUSTMENT [B1-19] ADDED.

* ‘DISPLAY CREDIT FRACTIONS’ ADJUSTMENT [B1-18] ADDED TO ALLOW OPERATORS TO NOT HAVE TO DISPLAY THEM.

* ‘DISPLAY REPLAY INDICATOR’ ADJUSTMENT [B1-17] ADDED.  THIS WILL ALLOW STARS TO APPEAR ON THE DISPLAY DURING THE ‘REPLAY AT’ SHOW IF A NEW REPLAY LEVEL IS AVAILABLE.

CHANGES IMPLEMENTED WITH V1.04.1

* CHANGED CALCULATIONS FOR CUSTOM BOOKKEEPING AUDITS AA-01, AB-01, AC-01, AD-01 AND A2-01.

* ADDED DUTCH TRANSLATIONS IN MENU SYSTEM ON BOTTOM LINE OF THE MENU DISPLAY.

CHANGES IMPLEMENTED IN V1.05

* FRENCH TRANSLATIONS IMPLEMENTED.

* INCREASED TIME DELAYS ADDED FOR NSM DATAPRINT 3000 PRINTER TO STOP THE ‘SPEICHER GELOSCHT’ MESSAGE FROM APPEARING INCORRECTLY.

CHANGES IMPLEMENTED IN V1.06

* [B1-14] ‘MESSAGE OF THE DAY’ CORRECTED RANDOM LOCKUP CONDITION WHEN MORE THAN 3 CHARACTERS WHERE ENTERED.  THE MESSAGE FIELD INCLUDES 3 LINES OF 17 CHARACTERS EACH.  THE DOWN ARROW SYMBOL IS USED TO MOVE TO NEXT LINE.

* [B1-20] ADJUSTMENT FOR THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CREDITS , RANGE 1 TO 99.

 FACTORY DEFAULT IS 20.

* HOLLAND COINAGE, CHANGE: 1 GUILDER = 1 CREDIT ALWAYS.

* HOLLAND METER [COUNTER] WILL REGISTER 1 COUNT FOR EACH 1/4 GUILDER.

BOTH IN BOOKKEEPING AND MECHANICAL METER.

*  WAND ALWAYS RETURNS TO THE HOME POSITION: IF YOU POWER OFF AND ON, OR SHUT THE COIN DOOR WITH THE WAND MOVING: GAME COULD LOCK UP. 

* IMPLEMENTED GERMAN TRANSLATIONS.

CHANGE IN SOUND SOFTWARE  V1.06

* TO OBTAIN LOWER VOLUME SETTING: CHANGE U30  ON THE SOUND PCB TO:

 SOFTWARE V1.06.  VOLUME ADJUSTMENT RANGE 1 THROUGH 40.

VOLUME SET AT LEVEL 1 IS LOWER THAN PREVIOUS SOFTWARE VERSIONS.

V1.06 VOLUME LEVEL 5 IS EQUAL TO VOLUME 1 SETTING ON PREVIOUS SOFTWARE.