AY-3-8500

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Pong-in-a-chip device

Family

Family chips table
chip Year Derived from Package Notes
AY-3-8500
AY-3-8500-1
1976 DIP28-600mil 4 Ball & Paddle games and 2 shooting games
AY-3-8510 1978? AY-3-8500 DIP16-300mil 4 Ball & Paddle games in color
AY-3-8512 1978? AY-3-8510 DIP16-300mil Ball & Paddle games in color with two target shooting games
AY-3-8515
AY-3-8515-1
1976? Color picture encoder for the AY-3-85xx
AY-3-8550
AY-3-8550-1
1976 AY-3-8500 4 Ball & Paddle games and 2 shooting games with horizontal player motion
AY-3-8600
AY-3-8600-1
1977 8 Ball & Paddle games
AY-3-8601
AY-3-8601-1
1976 Square Off: Combat Squares, Racing Squares, Shooting Squares, 2 Jungle Games (supposedly unreleased)
AY-3-8602
AY-3-8602-1
1976 Volleyball Plus: Volleyball, Protection, Hazard (supposedly unreleased)
AY-3-8603
AY-3-8603-1
1976 Roadrace: Two car racing games
AY-3-8604
AY-3-8604-1
197? Barricade (2-player Snakes game)
AY-3-8605
AY-3-8605-1
1977 3 submarine war games
AY-3-8606
AY-3-8606-1
1977 DIP28-600mil 10 breakout games
AY-3-8607
AY-3-8607-1
1977 Target shooting games
AY-3-8610
AY-3-8610-1
1977 AY-3-8600 8 Ball & Paddle games with 2 target shooting games
AY-3-8615
AY-3-8615-1
1976 Color picture encoder for the AY-3-86xx
AY-3-8650
AY-3-8650-1
1976 Advanced controls and options when used with AY-3-8600
AY-3-8700
AY-3-8710 (PAL)
1976 DIP28-600mil Tank battle game
AY-3-8760
AY-3-8765 (PAL)
1976 DIP28-600mil 4 motor-cycle games: Skill cycle, Cycle race...
AY-3-8800
Ay-3-8800-1
1976 4 games: Black Jack, Draw Poker, Acey/Ducey and WAR
AY-3-8888
Ay-3-8888-1
1976 2 Vegas games: Black Jack and Slot Machine
AY-3-8889
Ay-3-8889-1
1976 Tic-Tac-Toe and LEM (Lunar Landing Module)

Pinout

                    AY-3-8500
                   DIP28-600mil
                    +---\/---+
                 NC | 1    28| NC
                Vss | 2    27| Hit Input
       Sound Output | 3    26| Shot Input
                Vcc | 4    25| Reset Input
        Ball Angles | 5    24| Score and Field Output
        Ball Output | 6    23| Practice
         Ball Speed | 7    22| Squash
       Manual Serve | 8    21| Soccer
Right Player Output | 9    20| Tennis
 Left Player Output |10    19| Rifle Game 1
    Right Bat Input |11    18| Rifle Game 2
     Left Bat Input |12    17| Clock Input
           Bat Size |13    16| Sync Output
                 NC |14    15| NC
                    +--------+

Frequency

AY-3-8500
Set reader to FREQ, put black probe to GND, red probe to 16 and 17 to measure CPU clock

External links

AY-3-8500 page on Wikipedia
Pong-in-a-chip Story at Pong-Story
Sean Riddle's decap for AY-3-8606-1

Files