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title Boulder Dash (Max-A-Flex)
set name mf_bdash
manufacturer Exidy / First Star Software
year 1984
genre Maze (hof)
category Maze / Digging (hof)
driver status good
driver source maxaflex.c
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rating

66% after 49 votes
 
BIOS maxaflex
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display
colour emulation good
palette 256
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 336x225
frequency 59.923329Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 4
nplayers 1P
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 2
coin slots 1
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hardware
cpu M6502 @ 1.78979MHz
cpu M68705 @ 3.579545MHz
audio POKEY @ 1.78979MHz
audio Speaker
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data
version added .088u4
last change(s) .109
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
bd-acs-1.rom  8192  2b11750e  mf_bdash    43e9ae44eb1767621920bb94a4370ed602d81056 
bd-acs-2.rom  8192  e9ea2658  mf_bdash    189ede7201ef122cf2b72fc847a896b9dbe007e5 
atarixl.rom  16384  1f9cd270  maxaflex    ae4f523ba08b6fd59f3cae515a2b2410bbd98f55 
maxaflex.uc  2048  fe9cf53c  maxaflex    4b02bc2f0c8a1eab799814fac82d5812c0160206 
maxprom.prm  512  edf5c950  maxaflex    9ad046ea41a61585dd8d2f2d4167a3cc39d2928f 
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additional information
info 0.88u4 [Mariusz Wojcieszek]

WIP:
  • 0.123u1: Atari Ace fixed fatal error in Boulder Dash (Max-A-Flex).
  • 0.108u5: Aaron Giles added new output utilities: output_set_led_value(), output_set_digit_value() and output_set_lamp_value(), which are used to set a generic indexed data type. Changed the Max-A-Flex driver to use output_set_digit_value() for their digits. This fixed the digits in Boulder Dash (Max-A-Flex).
  • 0.88u4: Mariusz Wojcieszek added Boulder Dash (Max-A-Flex) (Exidy / First Star Software 1984).
  • 8th November 2004: Mariusz Wojcieszek - Wrote a driver for the Max-A-Flex system (Atari 600XL). Four titles have appeared on this platform officially only.
LEVELS: 80 (5 x 16 - endless)

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Romset: 16 kb / 2 files / 9.04 zip
history Boulder Dash (c) 1984 Exidy / First Star Software.


Rockford digs feverishly, as boulders crash down all around him, through 16 mystical caves and five levels of difficulty.


- TECHNICAL -


Max-A-Flex hardware


Main CPU : M6502 (@ 1.78979 Mhz), M68705 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)

Sound Chips : POKEY (@ 1.78979 Mhz), Speaker


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 336 x 225 pixels

Screen refresh : 59.92 Hz

Palette colors : 256


Players : 4

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- SERIES -
  1. Boulder Dash (1984)
  2. Boulder Dash 2 – Rockford's Revenge (1986)
  3. Super Boulder Dash (1986)
  4. Boulder Dash III (1986)
  5. Boulder Dash Construction Kit (1987)
  6. Rockford (1988)
  7. Boulder Dash EX (2002, Nintendo Gameboy Advance)
  8. Boulder Dash - M.E.
  9. Boulder Dash - M.E. 2
    10. - STAFF -
    • By : Peter Liepa
    • With : Chris Gray
    • - PORTS -
    • * Consoles :
    • Atari 2600
    • Atari XEGS
    • Colecovision (1984)
    • Nintendo Famicom (1990)
    • Nintendo Game Boy (1990)
    • * Computers :
    • PC [MS-DOS] (1984)
    • FM-7 (Nov.1984)
    • Acorn Electron
    • ZX Spectrum (1984)
    • Commodore C64 (1984)
    • Amstrad CPC (1984)
    • Atari 400/800 (1984)
    • Apple II E (1984)
    • Epoch Cassette Vision (1984)
    • BBC Micro (1988)
    • - SOURCES -
    • Game's rom.
    • Machine's picture.
    • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=boulder-dash&page=detail&id=3745&o=2
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