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Evening all. This one is probably for all the old skool collectors here and the first name that springs to mind is @niallquinn / @Gary or @Geddy. Playing with the MiSTer FPGA and looking at some of the demos it reminded me how good the mods were. In fact the MiSTer is annoying me that much due to the quality of what it does is I regret all the things I’ve brought such as RetroFreak and other emulations. Anyway after watching a few demos I had a vague feeling there used to be a great and complete collection of mod rips for the Amiga. Does anyone recall such a thing or am I just thinking of an old TOSEC or something like that ? Does anybody have any inkling of what I am going on about ? Thank you.

We all need a break from time to time. Hope to see him back.

I believe he's just taking a step back for a while...

Wow. I've been away for a while with the pandemic, lockdown, shielding, turning 50, new PC (so still reinstalling stuff 5 months later) another lockdown so shielding again etc and have only just come back on to see what's going on in the world of fruit machine emulation and I saw this news. RIP Wizard. Your gift to the world does not go unappreciated. You allowed me to revisit part of my youth and this doesn't happen very often in this world...

I use to sequence back in the day (Noisetracker, protracker, Octamed), was good times If you sail the high seas there's this: Amiga Mods Anthology - 4cds A massive 4 CDROM-Set, 18,000+ files (Protracker, S3M, XM, Amiga Synth...) Many, many, artist represented (with their OWN permission, info-files, pics and previously unreleased mods!) from the origins of the scene (Amiga days) on up to early 1996 featuring most of the best PC-Multichannel musicians. This CD is readable under all major platforms (MS-DOS, Win, Mac-os, UNIX, Amiga-DOS...) Hope that is of use - would recommend most stuff Romeo Knight did, one of my fave scene musicians from back then Edit: also found this collection of torrents, covering a 29gb base collection plus update torrents: http://tracker.modarchive.org/

RIP Chris

Clockwork Orange Free spins with the clock middle symbol and usual clockwork orange symbols 3*3 way for feature entry? There are two programs afaik, one that saves up the numbers from the middle clock symbol like an earlier machine, Pure Madness and the other one doesn't, it just dapples the numbers on a feature entry with symbol clock symbol on win line. I would think 10p stake is just a setting on the stakes/prizes key. £1,000 sounds seriously steep. That game bombed in terms of cash box performance compared to any other incarnation of clockwork oranges. You're right the WOW cabinets are built cheaply comparted to some techs. The marketing was always geared toward a budget value purchase for an AGC rather than something that would go head to head with the latest games. Afaik there's no empty for the software itself but the red note recycler if of a certain type was vulnerable to an illegal exploit which possibly explains the £1 stake comment or merely the fact that the hopper was only £250 not £350 and on arcade settings they do streak well eventually. If that's the case then typical arcade owner blind to the fact that Flo might be putting in £500+ for the streak and seething when she wins over £250 on the eventual streak. Could you trust that sort of character to give you a fair price for second hand goods? It depends how much you like the game but I'd say £150 tops for that tech/genre. They are prone to reel alignment errors, plus door and note acceptor security issues. Digital cabs versus mechanical? Pros and cons. Digital looks more modern, more player appeal but when it does go wrong it generally requires a different skill set to correct as a pose to mechanical. Digital generally more reliable as less moving parts but of course build quality be it a PC or set of analogue reels counts for a lot. I can't see Novomatic etc ever revisiting the Empire back catalogue much as it's an appealing idea to most on this forum. There's no way that the euro friendly high cash box earning powerhouses of Admiral and Cashino Gaming venues on the high street would every go for that. Even a lo tech Cash in the Box would mean nothing versus a Lucky Jewels or Chip Runner Hot Deluxe Magic.

I haven't tested this yet, but as @Reg mentioned earlier in the thread, I can scan for MFME's entries in the Windows registry - so ideally the arcade sim program won't need to run as Administrator, I think I can get those at normal privileges. For MFME, the 'turbo start' feature will require a permission I believe - but it will work without that permission (without turbo-starting) if a user chooses to deny permission to the add-on .exe that makes all that work. Not due to the nature of the code, but Windows now requires .exe's to be 'signed'... so if it proves popular, donations could be used to pay for a signing certificate to remove that issue. While we're solidly in pre-alpha territory, I'm looking to keep costs low, so that popup will be an annoyance on the first run of arcade sim running MFME machines. On an alternative strategy to 'unthrottling' for fast startup; For MPU4 under MAME I've had success using 'save states'. If they don't work correctly for other techs (haven't tried) I may be able to fix them up in the MAME source. These mean that even newer techs, that are slow to start up, could be up and running in less than a second All stuff for further down the line...

As an aside on the MFME/MAME situation: The plan is to have this all seamless, so if someone has MFME installed (as I'd imagine everyone on here has), arcade sim will find it, and the MFME machines will be visible in the library, also arcades including MFME machines that have been shared will be visible. For users who do not have MFME installed, the MFME machines/arcades will be hidden (as they will not work correctly without MFME). I hope this is a good balance for the FME community. I am also thinking about auto-added wall-hung picture 'props', and for standard (non-MFME) arcades that have a few fruit machines; they would contain images directing people to Desert Island Fruits to learn more about FME/get more fruities, perhaps even launch a browser with the URL when selected. I'm looking to strike a balance between 'working perfectly out of the box' for new users, and signposting new fruit machine enthusiasts to this wonderful FME scene. I feel the project had a wobble recently with the MFME/MAME situation, and I hope this clears us a healthy path forward that everyone is happy with... I welcome any further suggestions on this stuff

Fair enough, I wasn't thinking straight, plenty of games that could be mullered and even the pluggers as Alex says would be mullered by someone who knew what they were doing to leave it relatively dead. That said roll on to 2007 and you had people doing the 4 reel purple cab deals leaving silly value in the main feature pot after ripping the end box pot mercilessly. Party Time over a decade earlier, no Internet, less players but still sounds like you had the usual idiots ruining things. Before my time as a more serious player, I can remember similar machines of the era, Spectre, Barcode, Streets Ahead etc one for the download list.

Dear god - I didn't even play this round thinking "nope", no idea. Good job I stayed quiet !