Get it at...

http://www.nwlink.com/~scapino/Index.htm
and at AJ's


Release History

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Second Release v2.1

Thanks to Emkaah finding a solution to the dreaded ATI reel bug, I fixed the graphics that caused those problems on this table. I replaced the Fathom backglass letter animation graphic, the menu graphic, the dip switch text graphic, and last but not least, in hopes that the same solution would apply to the display comma problems, I replaced the display comma graphic.

All should be well now, I hope!

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First Release v2.0

This was a bit of a challenge. The way I map all 4 players to 1 display, was
tough to implement on this multi-ball game.

On older Bally SS games, they had 4 lights on the backglass to indicate which player
was up. On those tables I just checked the status of those lights to decide which player
got mapped to the big display. Easy!

Then on Flash Gordon and EightBallChamp, Bally no longer used the 4 player up lights.
They just flashed the display of the player that was up. In a 1 ball game, keeping track
of the number of players, and incrementing was fairly easy. The ball hit the drain,
and if the the shoot again light wasnt on, advance to the next player.

On this table, we have the flashing display thing, and up to 3 balls!

I couldnt do the simple drain check thing. I had to keep track of any balls kicked onto the playfield,
and ignore any hitting the drain, except the final ball.

I think I got it, but I wouldnt be supprised if something odd happened like if you released a traped
ball at the exact instance that the main ball drained. So far I have had no problems, but who knows?

I toyed with the idea of doing a "gold" version of this table, and I still might.
It just means another 4.5 megs of space on my server.......:(

This release requires VP6 or better, and VPM 1.20 or better.

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Thanks to Frank Gigliotti for suggesting I do this table, and pointing me to a site with good info.
Thanks to nico193 for his previous versions.

Enjoy Fathom!

Kurt Herman
scapino@nwlink.com



