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AZKOYEN PARALLEL HOPPER. FRUIT MACHINE SPARES | eBay UK Just bought two myself @ £20 each for my other machine which is a really good price, so if anyone else is building a cabinet get yourself some of these, normally around £65 each!

Any suggestions as to what the groups are called?

Anyone? Must be someone!

No, as its an emulation just like the real machine, you have to keep playing it and remember what they are. Some older Barcrest's enable the player to press the Barcrest button when a feature is offered and it hints at what it is, such as King Kebab.

Still looking for an image if anyone has one!?

Anyone got an image of them then?

Yeah, I mean what are the main games we want? Rainbow Riches, Elvis, Cashino etc.

Maybe an image of an old rio cab would better then?

@redbagssure I reading the string somewhere if pre 2006 Hasp not required unless I was dreaming.

A bit of digging... Anyone know what the ram disk is for? Anyone got a memory dump from a running machine? Barboot.exe launches ge.exe but there's no barboot.exe within the image I have. The image I have, "Bar7.tmp" is barboot.exe renamed. It looks for the presence of a file Test\Barcrest\Developer.txt (Be good if we had this). A silly comment within the strings.txt file lol. We tested the ElvisTop20.exe and its not a real .exe so it must be loaded in to some form of environment. All speculation at the moment, comments, help appreciated. @Norwenglish @slotsmagic @redbags @davep180 @spa strings.rar

I wonder if you could drop a file in to chatgpt and ask it to do things for you?

Anyone Got an image they can drop in here then?

Bell Fruit - Cops N Robbers Safecracker Club 20p £5 94%.rar

There is a £500 version available for download @edenb

Thought you had to play your games off first?

There's an American software program he was considering buying, no idea what it is called but its in the region of £800 per year and it makes reverse engineering a doddle apparently.

@thealteredemu probably I'm just going off what he said last night. Anyone Got an image they can drop in here then?

Ok then, I'm sure the comments will be read by friend when he becomes available so we just need what I have asked for above.... Motherboard, Hard Drive, GPU, CPU, RAM, Graphics Card, Display etc (including model numbers etc.) And I'd probably say a cloned hard disk would be the answer as everything will be on that. If someone would kindly oblige in providing the above.

It's a good idea but I have 446 games on mine and all the 9 buttons vary apart from start.

Looks ace that!

I was speaking to my friend last night who is a programmer, he has registered on this site as @Norwenglish if admin @Reg could approve him please or whatever the criteria is for him to post here and in other places. He's not a gambler and doesn't understand fruit machines, he somewhat gets the jist of playing Road Hog in The Reel Vegas Blackpool after me helping him lol, but that's his limits. Anyway, after a conversation last night with him about about getting these animated machines working, he asked me for a list of things he wants so he can understand a little bit better the hardware. He won't be creating an emulator but hopefully a work around. He asked that if he was to build a Rio animated machine from scratch, for example a T7 what hardware was inside it. Motherboard, Hard Drive, GPU, CPU, RAM, Graphics Card, Display etc (including model numbers etc.) He mentioned using x86 or something which can emulate actual hardware used, I was getting sleepy by this point lol. He also mentioned that Barcrest only having certain graphics cards that will work would seemed silly, because if there was a fault with one they'd have to replace/recall them all. That makes sense to me as well but I've read here somewhere that only certain ones will work. He went on a bit more about the software or loader doing checks to see if things where in place, he's under the impression he can bypass the checks. So he needs a copy of the loader, a game for example Elvis Top 20, or maybe just a clone of a hard drive uploaded somewhere so he can download it and have a look. To add he is bit busy at the moment so we may not get a response for a while and certainly not if his account is restricted. Thanks

What machines did you emulate?

In a virtual machine can it be tailored to run with specific hard ware?

It was very early days when we was trying to get them to work, obviously the knowledge base has improved greatly since. My skills are probably lower than yours lol. I did try to get my programmer friend to look at it but he has no interest in slot machines so this was a dead idea from the beginning.