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  1. Gorf

    in 8-bit

    Posted

    I remember the arcade machine at Butlins all those years ago. 

    The speech, Space Cadet amongst others. 

    But even back then 10p was a lot of money for me, so watched rather than played it. 

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  2. Trying to play a Monopoly 25p bellfruit rom and there is a constant whirring type sound

    in Newbies Help Area

    Posted

    If it's hoppers, then go into design edit mode, then click on the configuration tab and uncheck both hoppers and reload the layout.

    If it's the reel mechanism, then just click on the configuration tab and untick the effects, near the bottom right of the config window.

    If it's neither of them, then post up a screenshot of the layout, as there are so many Monopoly layouts.

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  4. oxo club 3 player

    in General FME Chat

    Posted

    35 minutes ago, richierichuk said:

    i managed to find the party time ones which i believe are from electrocoin so makes me think why cant they be emulated to the oxo club etc?

     

    Party Time are Astra machines. 

  8. Spy Hunter

    in Consoles

    Posted

    Must take a look at this, I loved this on the Spectrum back in the day.

    One of the games, I remember, on a Sunday afternoon, when I was sometimes allowed to play on the family, big 21" colour TV in the living room, rather than my portable 14" in the bedroom.

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  9. IPTV (Tried it or do you use it ?? )

    in Bowie Lounge

    Posted

    I've friends who use them, I don't personally.

    I don't blame people for using them, because some companies have taken the piss, with pricing for years. But look at how services such as Spotify etc, have shown, the vast majority of people will stop the naughtiness, if offered convenience and value for money.

    I stopped most naughty things, when I stopped gambling hundreds a month away and could actually afford to buy things, if I wanted them.

    I have Prime, Netflix, Britbox, Xbox subs, even though, I might not used some services for months. They are inexpensive for me, not even a couple of days wages in total.

    That's not to say, I still don't sometimes, watch something, somewhere I shouldn't. I have the films etc, on DVD/Bluray but find streaming much more convenient. James Bond films is one such thing, none of the streaming services have all the Bonds, but I found a website with high quality streams of them all.

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  10. Bubble Bobble

    in 8-bit

    Posted

    Loved Bubble Bobble. Lots of secrets to discover and great gameplay.

    Like I mentioned in the Rainbow Island comments, this was one, I used to play with my mate, on some overnight sessions on the C64 and on the Amiga as well, when he's mum was working nights.

    His sister who lived at home still, in the early days of our overnight gaming sessions, wasn't too keen. I remember her bursting into the living room, saying why the hell, are you playing that same tune, over and over and over again, it's doing my head in. Of course when so intense into something, you aren't taking any notice of these things.

  11. Rainbow Islands

    in 16-bit

    Posted

    36 minutes ago, thealteredemu said:

    Great game. Not sure if I like it as much as Bubble Bobble but I remember having this on my spectrum and I loved it.

    I think one of the best arcade conversion on the Spectrum is Bomb Jack, that’s an amazing game.

    J

    For me there's only one better version of Bomb Jack for home computers then the Spectrum and that's the Amstrad CPC version. Try it emulated, it's still as addictive as back then. 

    It's similar in gameplay but much more colourful.

    Thr C64 version is far to cramped and the Amiga version is poor as well.

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  12. Rainbow Islands

    in 16-bit

    Posted

    Me and my mate, spent months playing this, until we completed it.

    We loved Bubble Bobble, which we also completed, so was pleased to see this was going to be released. But, I remember that it didn't appear it was coming out, due to some dispute. So I was excited to see it was released, when I went into Virgin Megastore in London. I remember ringing my mate to tell him.

    I used to take my Amiga, up to his place as his mum worked night shift and we used to spend hours playing my Amiga.

    The game is full of hidden secrets, including codes entered on the start screen and as Boulderdash says, collecting the gems in the correct order.

    But you had to work through the game, to get the codes.

    I remember we discovered the code to continue from Level 5 to Level 7 (IIRC) at about 4am, when I was having to leave, as I was early turn in work (days of no sleep for 36+ hours). We couldn't wait until the next time, we would get to play lol.

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  13. Using MFME, and it's impact on your 'real life' gambling

    in Emulator Chat

    Posted

    MFME, made no difference to me.

    Perhaps if it had emulated the current machines out there, I would have felt a bit different, I.E, why spend money and trawl arcades for machines, I can play at home for free. But gamblers gamble to win money, something you can't do in an emulator.

    By the time MFME came out, I had discovered online gambling and although, I still played AWPs when out and about, in pubs, days out etc... I didn't go to the arcade sometimes for weeks, because I want to play online slots. I'd say in the £25 era onwards, my gambling and it's losses were made up of 80% online 20% AWP.

    Nowadays, MFME, does show, just how boring and linear, so many machines were, from the £15 era onwards in particular.

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  14. Advanced Fruit Machine Simulator By Codemasters

    in 8-bit

    Posted

    11 hours ago, RickB said:

    Anybody remember Vegas Jackpot on C64? I played this one too, but it was very limited.

     

    This was the one, I was talking about in my previous post.

    I got my C64 with a lot of games, second hand. This came with it and was my most played game for a long time.

    Just trying to get the jackpot out of it, was the only real thing to do, but it was fun trying to do it.

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  16. I cannot download anything, I haven't reached my limit and I've cleared my cache.

    in Newbies Help Area

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, john brewer said:

    Thanks guys, I shall donate.

    Don't want to put you off donating, but any donation now, will only last until Dec 31st, so if you are going to donate, don't make it a big amount.

    Hopefully then next year, you will feel it worth donating a bit more, to continue to download the 1000's of machines on offer.

    But as said, donating is hugely appreciated.

  23. FAQ

    in Newbies Help Area

    Posted

    Everyone has them, they are in a file called tips.txt, that's in the MFME v20, installation folder.

    One area, no one really did anything for, back in the beginning of FME, was good documentation on each function within the emulator. When I used to do discs for my friends back in 2001-2003, I had written a guide about loading and playing. But it wasn't overly detailed, as for instance, I wasn't designing, so never knew anything about that aspect.

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  25. MFME v20 Windows 11

    in The Laboratory

    Posted

    There's ways around upgrading I believe, something to do with editing an. ini file IIRC, was one of them.

    I'll probably just stick with 10 on my laptop.

    Microsoft were cheeky saying 10 was the last Windows version. Then release 11 and then make it restricted on who can upgrade, including some people who had new machines. 

    Surprised no one has started a super lawsuit or whatever it's called, against them.

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