Funworld Photo Play 2000 Generation

History

Released in 1996, the Photoplay 2000 series of machines were the first touchscreen based videogame arcades released by Funworld. Present in most of Europe and some parts of Asia, these machines were very popular, being normally installed in cafés, restaurants and bars.

Machines

• Photo Play 2000
• Photo Play Masters
• Photo Play Barry
• Photo Play Smart

Hardware Versions

These machines had two known hardware revisions:

1. The original revision is based off a 486-class motherboard, with 4 MB of RAM and a separate IO-board and GPU.
2. The later all in one Pentium-class motherboard that integrated video, audio and IO. (also sold as upgrade kit if the original motherboards died).

For more details, check each machine sub-page.

Software Versions

Yearly updates were sold to distributors as update kits. An update kit would contain a dongle, software manual, license manual, some stickers and two (part) update CD's that were to be installed using the Photo Play Service Box. This Service Box was a Photo Play computer with floppy/CD drive in a suitcase with a small character display to follow progress. Installing would entail moving the hard disk caddy into the Service Box together with the boot floppy and update CD.

The following PTS-DOS based software updates exist:

• 1997 (2.0)
• 1998
• 1999
• 2000
• 2001
• I.G.O 1
• I.G.O 2
• I.G.O 3
• I.G.O 4
• I.G.O 5
• I.G.O 6
• I.G.O 7
• I.G.O 8
• Funny (Children's Version)

Security

Funworld decided to protect these machines against piracy with two dongles or security keys. The first, a Dallas DS1982U-F5, of the Dallas iButton series of devices from Dallas Semiconductors, is a 1KB EPROM with a unique serial number that is installed on the IO Board (on the original hardware revision) or directly on the motherboard (on the later revision). The Dallas iButton does not need to be swapped for a newer one if the software is upgraded.

For the second, they used an external dongle that connects to the parallel port. Various versions exist of the latter as it would need to be replaced with each software update. The 1999 Rev. 2 Blue dongles have the Country with Flag and Revision information on a couple of stickers while on the others there is indication of the Month, Year, Country with Flag and Version of the game.

Some revisions of the later versions of these dongles (I.G.O 6 to I.G.O. 8) did not have a shell (just the PCB) and have an AT-keyboard connection that is needed to power the dongle. The parallel dongles are locked year-wise and region-wise, so you cannot use a Belgian 2001 dongle with a Portuguese 2001 hard disk, nor can you use a French 2001 dongle with any other hard disk than French 2001. Below you can find a table of the parallel dongles and their identifying features.

Year	Color	Notes
1997	-	Might only need 697081-S IO Board
1998	-	Might only need PP2000/CI8000 IO Board
1999	Blue (Rev.2), Yellow (Rev. 1) or White (Rev. ?)	Blue and White dongles do not have passthrough
2000	Yellow or Blue
2001	Blue or Green
I.G.O. 2	Green
I.G.O. 3	Black
I.G.O. 4	Yellow
I.G.O. 5	Black
I.G.O. 6	Green or PCB w\ AT Plug	UBICOM MCU with SEEPROM
I.G.O. 7	Green or PCB w\ AT Plug	Parallax MCU with SEEPROM
I.G.O. 8	Green, Black or PCB w\ AT Plug	Parallax MCU without SEEPROM

Reference

• 1999 Funworld Photo Play 2000 products brochure (2000, Masters, Barry Refresh, Smart) (Italian)
• Photoplay 2000 Manual German 06/1996 (386)
• Photoplay 2000 Manual German 09/1996 (386 SX/33)
• Photoplay 2000 Manual German 03/1997 (486 DX4-100)
• Photoplay 2000 Manual German 08/1997 (486 Tomato)
• Photoplay 2000 Manual German 07/1998 (486 Tomato II)