TAB Austria

History

TAB Austria, was established in 1962 in Austria as Automaten Dattl.

They moved onto placement of arcade machines in the 80's and eventually ended up making their own machines too. In 1996 they brought out their Silverball range of touch machines.

In a wild twist of events, they are still alive with Fun4Four, jukeboxes and casino machines, whereas most touch machine competitors have long since gone bankrupt.

Silverball Machines

	1996	1998	2002	2005
Standup	Silverball (Original)		Silverball Pro	Silverball Strato
Bartop		Silverball Beetle	Silverball Beetle Pro	Silverball Cosmo

In 2000, TAB released the MAX jukebox concept which added MP3 playback. All machines shown above were sold as a seperate MAX edition too.

Software Releases

*WORK-IN-PROGRESS*

	Pre-Win9x	Win9x	WinXP
1996	V1*
1997	V2 V3 (?)
1998	V3
1999	V4*
2000		V5
2001		V6
2002		V7
2003		V8
2004		V9
2005		V10
2006		V11
2007		V12
2008		V13
2009		V14	V14
			V15
			V16
			V17
			V18

^{* These versions are unconfirmed to ever have existed but the math looks right, so take it with a grain of salt.}

Reference

• A decade of Silverball retrospective (2007)
• Golden Memories - TAB Austria's 50th anniversary retrospective (2012)
• Silverball Kompendium - reference @arcadeinfo.de