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[balater]

File Name: Middle Earth (Atari 1978

File Submitter: balater

File Submitted: 09 Oct 2021

File Category: VPX/VPinMAME Recreations

Author(s): BalateR
Manufacturer: Atari
Year: 1978
Permission to MOD?: Yes, without approval

Graphs of tables created in part from videos and images from the Internet. And a big thank you to all the authors of sources taken here and there on the net.
Playfield remade.
Use the Atari1b.vbs file to counter the corner bug.

Click here to download this file

[teisen]

great work,

 

the table was beautiful!

 

Congratulations

 

hugs

Edited by teisen, 08 October 2021 - 04:49 PM.

[bolt]

Thank you balater.

[Emre]

It says "machine terminated before initialization check rom path or rom file" 

 

I'm using the midearth.zip file from this site in the rom folder.

 

I copied the .vbs file into the script folder too.

 

Fix: The rom on this site doesn't work, get it from the vpuniverse.

 

Table is very unique and fun, thank you for sharing this table.

Edited by Emre, 08 October 2021 - 07:32 PM.

[clyde]

It says "machine terminated before initialization check rom path or rom file" 

 

I'm using the midearth.zip file from this site in the rom folder.

 

I copied the .vbs file into the script folder too.

I had to get the rom from VPU before I could get it to work.

[InsideFR]

Merci

[Mustang1961]

Hello Balater,

 

thank you for this rare table. But I cannot get it into play. The VPU rom is in the rom folder and the atari1b.vbs is in the table folder als well as in the script folder. The table loads, the playfield illumination is in attract mode. No crackling sound from the emulation start. All displays show "8" in all digits and non of table control shows any effect. What could I try additionally? (all other Atari pins I have -> run)

 

The table creates a nvram file!

 

Sincerely, Christian.

Edited by Mustang1961, 09 October 2021 - 01:18 PM.

[clyde]

Hello Balater,
 
thank you for this rare table. But I cannot get it into play. The VPU rom is in the rom folder and the atari1b.vbs is in the table folder als well as in the script folder. The table loads, the playfield illumination is in attract mode. No crackling sound from the emulation start. All displays show "8" in all digits and non of table control shows any effect. What could I try additionally? (all other Atari pins I have -> run)
 
The table creates a nvram file!
 
Sincerely, Christian.

take the atarivbs file out of the table folder and see if that helps

[Mustang1961]

 

take the atarivbs file out of the table folder and see if that helps

 

tested it, no change in behavior

[batch]

Why do you also put the Atari1b.vbs in the table folder, and not in the script folder only ?

 

You've been too speed

Edited by batch, 09 October 2021 - 01:57 PM.

[batch]

Anyone else ? credits are not registered, so I have to insert coins every time I open the table

Edited by batch, 09 October 2021 - 02:37 PM.

[clyde]

 

 

take the atarivbs file out of the table folder and see if that helps

 

tested it, no change in behavior

Do you have any other vbs scripts in your table folder, if so get them out of there. Will the table start? My score digits also show 8's until i start the table.

[Mustang1961]

Thank you clyde,

 

that was THE HINT. It works as you described.

 

All the best regards to you in Martinsville from Isernhagen, Christian.

Edited by Mustang1961, 09 October 2021 - 02:26 PM.

[STAT]

Thanks balater

[LynnInDenver]

Anyone else ? credits are not registered, so I have to insert coins every time I open the table

I noticed this same thing with Airborne Avenger, and I think it might have also been that way on Superman, so I think it's a specific "quirk" to Atari tables, rather than a bug, especially since I also don't think they retain any high score information. A lot of early solid state proceeded with an assumption that Home Use was not to be a thing (how many don't have free play as an option?), possibly encouraged by operators that feared that having pinball machines in a home precluded someone going to a location to play pinball at that point (which was a load of crap then, and even more so now). And I'm sure a lot of operators preferred not having to go and reset the credit count on machines before turning things off at the end of the day.

[Thalamus]

Thank you balater !!

[bpjacobsen]

Nice work. plays very well. 

Edited by bpjacobsen, 11 October 2021 - 02:57 PM.

[haggi]

Thanks, works well and I have to make a fantasy Directb2s .... 

[GlueSniffinEd]

Thank you, can't wait to try it out!

[thenamesplissken]

Hello, I downloaded this game. I put the roms in their folder. The table and backglass open. I hear the quarters drop. No digits at all I'm the score boxes and table will not start. Can anyone help me?