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because they're dull as dishwater maybe?

I've mentioned this before.... like the top two lamps on Test Your strength missing...... One of the replies I got was that Chis (R.I.P.) always wanted to see perfection in the emulator - and I respect that.

Fair point They bought out the DOND licence aswell. Both these franchises are on the blueprint digis of course, they must have thought the familiar brand would attract the players.

Maybe not new software - but new artwork and a license fee to ITV / Endemol to boot! Betcom weren't paying a license fee for Baking Bad and all those. At the time of the death knoll for AWP's - i'm surprised they were forking out money for licenses.

Exactly... at a time when the industry was on its knees... I find it pretty amazing - especially as they are so poor. The DOND itself success was the fruit machines second coming - and last hurrah - but an insanely popular (even now) mech for non players.

How many DOND games did Bell Fruit release in the end? Must have been at least 50 (across all sectors, not just pub). Plus there were some by Betcom, Games Media, Barcrest, Storm and others. I can't think of any other licensing agreement with such longevity.

It came to my attention whilst having a dabble on some of these fruit machines, that It was so rare to play a machine in real life with all the bulbs working, no buttons sticking etc. Part of the joy of playing machines back in the day was never knowing if you had more nudges that were lit up, or where exactly your skill-shot landed on the money climber. Not to mention the double nudges of reels when the button got stuck down! Anyway could it be an option to have random bulbs that don't work for a real authentic experience?

A great topic this. I do like when a layout has some imperfections. Machine looks a bit battered, maybe a little bit of sunlight on the glass etc.. Vecs released a layout, that had another members lighter, still resting on the machine.

I made the 1024dx which I recently made bigger it should be within the jpm section in downloads

Thankyou. Finally found it, lol, been searching all day.

this has made my day ! i had this about 13 years ago, got it up 4 flights of stairs into my first flat ! Transported from 70 miles away in the back of a Corsa ! Such an amazing sight to see it operational again in emulation form, going to have lots of fun playing this ! I've seen other threads with talk of AI image upgrade, is this layout the current with highest res artwork avaiable ? I'm new to the forum but if I knew how to extract the artwork, I'd have a go at upscaling it to higher rez to improve this, Welcome contact with DM, see if I can assist !

you name the release of mine you want broken and i'll break it and send it.. haha.. throw a wobbler by barcrest i made with a broken bulb, vecs has done some before, or maybe spill some tea on the keyboard... (strongly not advised)