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  1. Well this has come as a total shock to me. I know we had not seen eye to eye due to previous misdemeanours on my part but I always respected what he had achieved and done for everyone. 
    Just regret never making amends with him for the past

    RIP Chris

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  2. Great looking front end. From the video it looks like if you have a touch screen only you would have to scroll through loads of machines to get to one starting with say M if you had hundreds installed. Is there any way of jumping to a letter with only touch screen or can you bring up a keyboard to type a machine name in? 

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  3. Well I know Chris isnt the biggest fan of me for obvious reasons due to past events (and I dont blame him) but if I can help in any way I will, so bunged some in. Enjoy the wine Chris

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  4. Just a thought with the influx of new members whom this is being done for, would it be worth adding the roms to the layouts so they will work out of the box so to speak? At the moment if they download a layout they still have to find the right named roms to play the game. Us old hands would know what to do, but we would also know how to convert the old layout.

    Great work in converting them though, cant be a fun task

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  5. Noticed that one a few social media groups and pages that people are doing a 50 credit challenge where they record their machines playing out 50 games and upload the videos. All the ones I have seen have been on real machines but thought we could do a mix of real machines and emulated.

    The only rules are 

    1) only 50 credits (no more, no less)
    2) video must show all 50 games

     

    I have done a few on my t7 cabinet which I have uploaded to YouTube but links below

    Might do some community 50 credit challenges as well. Anyone else got any or fancy joining in?

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  6. When I was visiting family last weekend I saw a Sanyo MPC-100 MSX computer in a market for £50. Never had an MSX before so eventually bought it. 

    Was going through the paperwork inside the box tonight and found this 

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    which is a receipt for a wordprocessor cartridge that was included with the computer. Now the coincidence is the Leeds address from the retailer is less than 200 meters from my current home address. The thing is I bought the computer in Brighton, 250 miles away

    Anyway, don’t suppose anyone has any MSX 1 cartridges they don’t want do they?

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  7. On 10/11/2018 at 20:55, Reg said:

    The SNES had some wonderful games and also some really messed up ones.

    There is a selection of R-Type style games ( at least that's what I think they were meant to be ) that look like the authors have been whacked out their heads forever on when you can fly as a cat or god knows what else.  Take a look at this...  ...I think the cat is called Mike...

     

    The history is this is a parody of Gradius and originated on the MSX computer. Basically Konami took virtually every game asset and character from their other games and dumped them into Gradius 

  8. Barcrest T7
    Barcrest T8
    Astra Mk4
    Blueprint Aurora premium carbon

    That covers all the decent video based games

    And then one of these 

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    To convert into a sit down MFME cabinet and then I wont need any other machines :)

     

    EDIT: For my remaining 5 machines I will have the 5 most wanted roms MIA machines 

     

     

  9. 11 hours ago, Reg said:

    Yeah indeed - however in fairness - this may not be such a big job IF I can find the equal parts.  I am not too worried about the note acceptor on this, it seems bust.  Although powers up it does not take anything and I do have a couple of old £5 notes I kept as well.

    I do worry tho - I don't think they didn't the Compact Hopper MkII in a parallel version.

    All the barcrest Genesis MPU4 machines and most of the early MPU5 used a parallel compact hopper so you should have no problems there

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  10. This idea would need an mfme change but I’m 95% certain that the hoppers, coinmech and note acceptor will be cctalk. Wonder if Chris could add an option for an external serial port to be set up as the cctalk bus? Then all cash handling would work with minimal wiring. 

    It’s not a trivial job to program but when I have been stripping mpu5 t7 cabinets I have found a board that converts the standard rs232 signals to cctalk levels or I know you can get coin mech programmers that do a straight usb to cctalk. 

    The theory for the payout is already in there for parallel devices but pretty much every cabinet out there that is prime for conversion is going to have cctalk somewhere and you will be looking at at least another 100-150 to convert it back to parallel just for the three parts needed 

  11. Most of them seem to be real deal but with unlimited credit. They don’t seem to be happy like normal demo machines. 
     

    it’s looking like the only way to package them up for use without a dongle is by doing a VMware image with all the required files and Windows XP installed so they won’t be an easy play if I get them running. But if I can I will knock up some sort of menu with something like simpletouchfe within the virtual machine. I just need to crack the dongle protection and run a hasp emulator to remove the need for a physical device

  12. Party Games Slotto on my desktop PC

    Got all of the Mk4 astra cabinet games (things like Winderalla, little devil, bullion bars 500, circus time) running on my computer but currently I cannot run them without the original hasp key but I am working on that. If I can get them running in a stable environment I will share with you all for those that like to play the games that started the death of the AWP with the £500 jackpot

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  13. Board 1, Barcrest mpu5 reel driver board
    Board 2,Heber firefly io board, bit like an ipac board where physical switches on a machine can be read and lamps can be lit via a pc. Get that battery off the board before its too late as its leaking already
    Board 3, same as board 1
    Board 4, Maygay Epoch lamp driver 
    Board 5 Maygay Epoch reel driver
    Board 6 Maygay Epoch hopper driver
    Board 7 Maygay Epoch Coin mech 
    Board 8 Looks like some form of IO board for use in a pc but that's got me stumped
    Board 9 same as board 4
    Board 10 Barcrest MPU5 lamp expander board

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