Williams Electronics WHIRLWIND - Game Status Displays

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GAME
STATUS
DISPLAYS
Whirlwind
provides
the game
owner/operator
with
a display of
information
concerning
the
game's
bookkeeping and game
play feature
adjustments. Basically,
three classes
of
information
now become
available
in
this
status display
mode:
151
(Identification);
An
(Audit);
Ad (Adjustment). Each
of the
underscored
two-letter
abbreviations for
these classes
appears in the
Player Score Displays,
while the
system
microprocessor
for
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game is
displaying the
items within
each class.
identification
information--Id
With
the
game
turned on,
the
coin door
open, and
the AUTO-UP/MANUAL-DOWN switch
in the AUTO-
UP
position,
the
operator can
press
the
ADVANCE
switch once, briefly. Player
displays immediately
change
from
the
Attract Mode
to the
Game Status
Display
or
Identification
(id) Mode. This is evident by
the
following
display,
shown
in columnar form. The
column headings
refer to the two backbox displays.
Upper
Player
Score Display
Lower Player
Score
Display
Whirlwind
id
00 5 7 4 L-x*
*
x
-
indicates
ROM revision
level;
e.g.,
1 is initial issue;
2, 3, etc. for later revisions.
The
game
is
named in
the
upper
Player
Score
display.
The
game's identification number, the ROM
revision
level,
and
the id Mode
stage
(Id
00)
shows
in
the Lower
Player Score
display.
Pressing
ADVANCE
once
more
causes
the
id
01 display
to appear.
This
display describes the installed
software
more fully;
that
is,
country;
development
stage; date
of
revision.
Pressing ADVANCE
once
more causes
the
id
02 display
to appear.
This
display
describes which
of the
"lnstall"
options
is
currently
in
effect.
For
example,
if the YES option
of the INSTALL
FACTORY
Adjustment ltem
(Ad
70) was last
selected,
FACTORY
SETTING
appears on the player score displays.
Changing the
setting of any
other game
adjustment
item, after
selecting the YES option
for Ad 70 causes
the display
to
change
to
FACTORY ALTERED.
Similarly,
if
the
operator selects the YES option for
INSTALL
HARD
(Ad
65), the
display
indicates
HARD SETTING.
Changing a game
adjustment item later
then causes
the
display
to show HARD ALTERED.
Audit
Information--Au
While
the
AUTO-UP
switch
remains
in
the
Up position,
the
operator can press
the ADVANCE switch once,
briefly,
to
begin
the backbox displays
of
Audit
(sometimes
called "bookkeeping") Information. Fifty-four
audit
entries
are
now
available.
Calculation
of
the various
factors
is no longer
necessary because
the
System
11 B
game program now
performs
all the
mathematical
factor computations. This information is
intended
to aid the
owner/operator
in
evaluating
how
the game is performing
in each location, by
providing
knowledge
about
which game features
are receiving
the most play. With
this information,
the
owner/operator
can determine
whether
adjusting the
game
features
to other settings will
contribute to
increased
game
earnings.
The
operator
can
press
the
ADVANCE
button once
to
view
each
Audit
Information display item.
To
proceed
more rapidly
through
this information,
the
operator only
has to press and hold the
ADVANCE
button.
if
a
desired
item
is passed,
the
operator
can
use
the
MANUAL-DOWN
switch position with the
ADVANCE
button
to
back
up
to
the
desired
item.
The
Whirlwind
Audit
Table
lists
the
54
Audit
Items
of
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Displays.
Presentation
of these
Audit
items
again
utilizes
the
player score displays: The Audit Item entry appears
in
the
lower
Player
Score Display
accompanied
by
the Item's data, while the
upper display shows
the item
description. A few
example
entries
are shown
in
the
table.
Detection of erroneous
data affecting
any
of
the
counters used
in
these audit
items
causes the
message,
ERROR, to be displayed
during
display
of
any audit item associated
with
that
particular
counter. (The program
does not analyze
the cause
of
the
error;
it
merely alerts
the
operator of
the
error's existence
by
the message.)
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