Funworld Photo Play 2000

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.

Hardware

These machines had two known hardware revisions. The original one and a later revision that was also installed as an upgrade kit as the original motherboards died.

The following hardware was used:

List of Photoplay 2000 Hardware

	Original Hardware	Later Revision (or upgraded)
Motherboard	LS-486E Rev. C2 or Zida Tomato 4DPS	5SFV0 (OEM Board made by Chaintech)
CPU	Intel 486 DX4 100 MHz or ST 486 DX4 100 MHz	IDT WinChip C6 180 (C6-PSME180GA) (Normally underclocked to 133MHz)
RAM	1 SIMM of 4MB EDO/FPM RAM	1 DIMM of 16MB SDRAM
Graphics Card	Cirrus Logic CL-GD5440 1Mb PCI (Joytech Computer Co Ltd 54X62L)	Onboard Video (SIS 6306)
Sound Card	Embedded in the IO Card	Onboard Audio (ESS AudioDrive 1869F)
IO Card	PP2000/CI-8000 Rev. B ISA IO Board. This IO Board consisted of 2 Serial + 1 Parallel + iButton/Dallas Reader + ESS AudioDrive ES1868F Sound Chip + TDA1517 Amplifier.	None.
Hard Disk	Quantum Fireball EX 3.2AT or Seagate ST31722A	Quantum Fireball lct 20 10.2 AT or any of the earlier revision hard disk models.
Touchscreen Controller	3M Microtouch ISA Card PC BUS SMT3V (Serial) or Elo IntelliTouch 2310 Serial Controller	3M Microtouch ISA Card PC BUS SMT3V (Serial) or Elo IntelliTouch 2310 Serial controller
Monitor	20" VGA CRT (640x480 0.39 dot pitch)	20" VGA CRT (640x480 0.39 dot pitch)
Accessories (Optional)	Bank note acceptor, fun.link.	Bank note acceptor, fun.link.

Masters

Photo Play Masters

Photo Play NET was an additional service for Photo Play cabinets to sync their high scores to the web using a dial up modem.

Around 1998, Funworld released the Photo Play Masters cabinet with a dial up modem and new refreshed look as part of this campaign. Besides of the modem/look, these cabs are technically identical to the normal wood grain Photo Play 2000 and were sold alongside each other.

Software Versions

All PTS-DOS based updates:

• 1997
• 1998
• 1999
• 2000
• 2001
• 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

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 connection (think old keyboards) 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	?	?
1998	?	?
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	PCB w\ AT Plug	Parallax MCU without SEEPROM

Reference

• Photos, flyers and partial manual @recreativas.org
• 1999 Funworld Photo Play 2000 products brochure (Italian)
• Photo Play NET Activation Instructions (Dutch)