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I assume as my post on the introductions page has gone that I can now post on here? Anyway, my name is Pete, I'm pushing 50 and I'm a nostalgia addict. Cassettes, ZX Spectrum, Vinyl, 80s music, 8 bit games, old arcade games and especially the older fruit machines. The sounds, the lights, the features, I love them, especially the following which I have been looking for the machines themselves for quite some time: Rat Race, Top Take (aka Top The Lot), Smash and grab, Supaslots, Tuppeny Fair, Fortune Numbers, Spot a light, Line up/Exchanges Unlimited. So many great memories, and some rubbish ones (spending all my money on them!) Anyway, hello everyone...

@slasher you bastard hahaha Sorry @johnparker007 It is the pervert in me lol. That is a lot of hours mate and believe I appreciate it just take care of yourself and watch the old health. Health and happiness always comes first.

Only thing I can work out would be maybe he wants a mirrored or pornographic ceiling? Brilliant work. Reminds me of when I used to mod the java game trial bike pro. You'd get a pic then make the track all green for the game to recognise it lol

Welcome to the forums and as you enjoy nostalgic stuff check out the retro section, https://www.desertislandfruits.com/forum/index.php?/forum/45-desert-island-retro/ You can also access it with the dots up top just right of the logo (second dot) Enjoy

Hi Pete and welcome to the island. I hope you take a good look around especially the downloads section, there are plenty of the old classic machines in there, just look in the legacy section or the regular download section. If you need any help, just pop a post on the forum and someone should be around to help you. Enjoy our little home. Clo06.

Ok sounds like I need to convert Rat Race and get a 3d model of a mobility scooter! Yep walking around is very much the plan, to get that first person perspective going on for the immersion And yes, I think the cat's out of the bag that my plan is to make this into a live arcade... so I'm thinking to make it so you can walk around and watch other people playing games on their machines (plus potential text/voice chat), as well as playing on machines yourself. When you choose to play a free machine, MFME will be launched in the background to run that machine. When you have finished playing on the machine, your server-based bankroll balance will update accordingly based on cash in/out. Then that will allow for daily/weekly/monthly tournaments etc which should be a lot of fun So as a part of that new work, I've taken a break from the Converter today, and started very basic work on the 'codec'. This will allow streaming of the machines lamps/reels/vfds across the net, as I should be able to write some efficient lossless compression. Currently I've just implemented the base recorder/player system, along with the recording/playing of 'simple' (on/off - no fade levels yet) lamps. This will be used for all the free machines to play their attract mode loops without needing to have an MFME instance running for each machine (as that would get impractical very quickly). Here's a demo of 44 machines running their attract mode lamps (at random playback start points to provide variation) via this new system (so I am running zero MFME instances here). These are not perfect loops, I just recorded a few minutes, later I should be able to write something to auto-identify the loops when recording the attract modes. Anyway, enough blurb from me - onto the eye candy (may be best to watch this direct on youtube rather than embedded in the forum, then you'll be able to see in full 1080p HD, as some of the lamps are now tiny!):