Maintenance innovations: Broken hardware such as lamps, fuses, switches and coils are listed in the service menu on the display and indicated on a playfield or circuit board diagram.It is also possible to play a machine from another computer-for example, over the Internet-using the Telnet protocol and a webcam. Network support: Pinball 2000 machines can be networked, enabling them to be set up for game tournaments where each machine displays all highscores and even optional player pictures.Software management: Software can be updated via a serial cable connected to a second PC, so no ROM exchanges are necessary as in previous generations.The name XINA was inspired by XINU meaning: 'XINA Is Not APPLE' ( APPLE was the previous pinball programming system of previous WPC pinballs, no connection to the computer company. OS and Sub System: XINA is an application layer on top of XINU (OS) that handles the executive tasks of running a pinball machine, and also abstracts the various hardware features.The Pinball 2000 cabinet was the first to be equipped with a real subwoofer, where prior machines used a less-expensive broadband speaker. Audio: DCS2 audio hardware provides full stereo output, compared to the old WPC system's mono.Graphics SDK: Allegro Software Development Kit.It is possible to exchange the built-in monitor with an LCD display, provided it can handle the low refresh rate (15 Hz) and resolution (640x240) of an arcade CGA monitor. Video: Pinball 2000 uses a 19-inch CGA color monitor either a Wells-Gardener 19K7302 or a Ducksan CGM-1901CW model.It also had a custom PCI card for storage and sound DSP, and a secondary board connected by parallel port for driving lamps and solenoids. The 'Pinball 2000 hardware' setup was an ATX motherboard running a MediaGX CPU (x86 clone, it lives on as AMD Geode). A PCI-PRISM card holds the game ROMs and DCS2 sound hardware. Computer: The machine's head contains an IBM PC compatible computer consisting mainly of a BAT style PC mainboard running a Cyrix Media GX model GXm-233GP CPU connected to a Cyrix CX5520 bridge.You can help by converting this section, if appropriate. This section is in list format but may read better as prose. The integration of pinball and video was inspired by the Asteroids Deluxe arcade machine, which used a one-way mirror to add a static background graphic to the game's animated vector graphics.

The first-generation mockup prototype of the Pinball 2000 architecture was called Holopin-it used main designer George Gomez's old Amiga computer to drive the video display, and a No Good Gofers whitewood prototype playfield. The Pinball 2000 platform was originally designed to use a backbox video display (replacing the standard dot matrix display) but without the mirroring technique, reminiscent of those seen in Bally's Baby Pac Man (1982) and Granny and the Gators (1983) or Gottlieb's Caveman (1982) pinball machines. However, Star Wars Episode I suffered from a rushed and top-secret production cycle and sold only about half as many units (3,525), leading to Williams' decision to close down its historic pinball division. Revenge from Mars, the first of the two released games, sold a promising 6,878 units. 'Impacts' on these targets are detected by physical targets in the middle of the playfield, and by recognizing successful shots up the left and right ramps and orbits/loops. This allows the display of virtual game targets in the playfield's upper third that can be 'hit' by the machine's physical steel ball. The player perceives this video to be integrated with the playfield, due to a mirrored playfield glass (utilizing an illusion called ' Pepper's ghost') that reflects the monitor hung in the head of the machine. Unlike previous pinball machines, Pinball 2000 machines feature a computer monitor to display animations, scores, and other information.

It is the successor to the Williams Pinball Controller platform. Pinball 2000 was the last pinball hardware and software platform developed by major pinball manufacturer Williams, and was used in the machines Revenge From Mars (under the brand name Bally) and Star Wars Episode I (under the brand name Williams) before Williams exited the pinball business on October 25, 1999.

Pinball hardware and software platform Pinball 2000

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