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You’d be able to find out in mfme, test mode etc. might show % and actual %? J

I’d say it’s probably more like an SWP, it will be a compensated machine with very little real skill involved. Massive thanks to JP though, what a total legend getting this working, I’m max skillz man!! Always nice to see new possible emulations, I’m sure some will be interested in this. J

I don't think any of those roms in that archive will be the emptiable release as the sound roms are there and dated 2001, the earliest game roms in that archive are mid 2002 which would indicate rechip to me. I'm not certain of course. J

That's the full archive of Cop the Lot roms. I don't know how sorted they are, you'll have to go through them. J Cop The Lot (Bellfruit) [Rom].zip

Please!! J

Yeah, I believe that's the case for sure as we have £15 versions of Lord of the Rings and I can't imagine they got a rechip? Maybe if you had a keyboard that read multiple key presses at once. I know some keyboards only do so many, be great to get to the bottom of this. JP might be the guy to ask about this actually as he might know the inner working of how inputs are dealt with and if it's different to how the machine would read them etc. J

This was emptiable on super hold, they had that slipping bug like Snake Rattle n Roll and Lord of the Rings, I believe others from this era were also affected. Don't think we have any that work in the emulator, though that could be the way that button inputs are read in mfme. Be nice to get a set that are known workers to try out for sure I would have thought there would have been some BFM bits in Loo's massive resource releases. J

Do you have mfme installed? J

Ha ha!! JP might remember trying to make me a clicker device that was built inside my jacket!! Wires coming from each arm!! LOL. He's always been out there Around 1994.

I remember Electrocoins Mr Do! A fairly rare machine I’d say. We had one locally but it was only ever set to 5p £6 tokens. It played tight on this stake but to be fair when you finally managed to get a feature it pretty much offered something decent. I too would to have a play on this again!! J

Barcrest would have used commercial font libraries packages from the likes of Linotype etc. Those Opti fonts are just free remakes of the original fonts. Rodeo is the authentic version that Barcrest probably used on Lucky Strike. Still, free fonts. What’s not to like J

So it comes with no mfme or games. Who's going to buy it!! J

Looks decent… why didn’t you just go bigger on your pcie SSD?, you’ve fitted a 1tb sata mechanical drive? Was it an overall cost thing? J

That’s pretty cheap for a GPU, prices went a bit mental, they are gradually coming down now but I paid £1400 for my 3080, original retail was probably about 599!! Miners and chip shortages, probably scalpers too!! J

Why not Win11, isn’t it built on Win10? Surely it’s not a completely ‘new’ operating system? I probably won’t install on my work PC just yet, big at some point you won’t have an option. J

I run AS on my mamecab, when I built my cab I got the motherboard and CPU i5 2500k for £45 quid and it already had 8gb ram fitted. I did spend just over £100 on this second hand GPU recently, the GTX 980 is still a bit of a beast !! I don’t notice any difference on my work PC which has an RTX 3080! J

I don’t think you should have be a contributor or be involved with the forums to be able to enjoy fruit machine emulation. If you don’t want to contribute in those ways then just maybe at least a donation to keep the site going. This for me is a contributing factor and why so many will purchase a disk. That’s just my personal view, nothing against how this site is run. J

Not sure how many rep points you require but alternatively maybe donate to the site. Not sure what the minimum is but it’s inexpensive and will give you unlimited downloads I believe. J

Manic Miner was a groundbreaking game, the first game to have in game music, which was deemed impossible at the time. Such an important title for any Spectrum best of. If any software house pushed the Spectrum hardware limits it has to be Ultimate with Knightlore back in 1984, jaw dropping visuals for the time, nothing really came close, though 3D Ant Attack was probably the first isometric game prior to this. J

You’ve got to ask though. Where is a Manic Miner? The game is not only one of the most iconic games, it is the perfect platform game! J

Honestly I can only remember buying one legit game back in the day for my ZX Spectrum on 27th December 1985. I remember it so vividly as the snow had been pretty bad and my dad was debating whether to risk driving into town that day. I went for Rambo, whilst my friend chose Commando. We got home and he copied both games on his double tape deck. Cheeky! J

I found Amiga emulation a bit of a nightmare to set up back in the day, so if these things are literally plug and play then they are more appealing to me. J

A lot of these JPMs are classics. I used to love Indy when that first came out. J

Hey John, is it possible that you could add a JPM machine to your to do list. It’s a JPM machine in the Vogue cabinet running on Impact tech, the game is a complete classic machine from the 90’s. Money Talks I know you are busy mate but if you could pop in on the fruit machine list that would be appreciated J

Think JP already has plans for coin pushers, he could do the same pre baked effect on the coin pusher when not engaged. Am sure he’ll successfully navigate any limitations he might face J