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https://www.fruitemu.co.uk/ib/topic/15196-barcrests-taketwo-â£480jp-1024dxmfme5-versions/?tab=comments#comment-292196 Some talk with you, me, vectra and Wizard with others.

Just watched it, on night shift in work ATM. Commented on YouTube. Glad to see you planned some more £4 videos. There are still plenty of £4 machines, that were great. Particularly Barcrest, who released a lot of clones, Action Bank/Flash Cash etc. Then there's, Cash Counter which had a replay option, to encourage you to put your winnings back in, rather than collect (which I'm sure I read once, they were told off for and so never put it in any other machine). Then unless I missed a machine, Loads A Money, was unique and is a machine we had some discussion back on The Mecca years ago, because the roms released in the layout, shows how a fun machine, was turn crap by different roms.

Great stuff.

This is known, the value is covered by a lamp and reel lamps are not yet implemented in the public release. The bug list is here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UY-db_6bdyJBV9MonUFRwvl5dP4GvtosG8GemPuB7i4/edit?usp=sharing

Decided to do my quarterly clean up of my PC. Cleaned it all up (my word grateful for dust guards keeping most stuff on the outside). Inside a few specs of dust but nothing major. Put it all back together, switched on, tv complained of no connection, so told it, it's a PC connected to the HDMI and screen came on, but it was in the bios. It's a gaming PC costing £2700 and I never fiddle in the BIOS, so wanted to get out of it straightaway, so just exit. Complained, so said don't save, just exit. Get into Windows, the graphic card, showing up, but Windows using the Intel onboard. Usual fiddling to get it to use graphics card, drivers, disable/enable devices etc.. but to no avail. Back in the BIOS, graphic section showing onboard, so change it to auto and the PCI option. Still not working, back to BIOS, and onboard showing again. Thought sod it, just reset the BIOS back to standard settings, thought, I'm, sure it won't matter, a RTX 3080, will still achieve 60FPS, without any system overclock anyway. Computer complained about CPU fan error. Mine has an AIO device, so no fan present as such, so disabled, error disappears. Windows now won't load though. Tried the quick standard Windows repair from the recovery, error can't do it, it says after trying. Decided to do reinstall but keep files. Fairly quickly done and yes back in Windows, rebooted, yep Windows loads fine. Oh, still using onboard graphics, more fiddling, nope not having it. Though sod it, have to take card out, reconnect everything and try, so go to pull HDMI cable out of the back of the card, ah it's in an HDMI slot, but there's another one lower down. Long story short, I'd plugged the HDMI cable into the port for the onboard graphics and not the graphics card itself. Looking at the list of stuff, it uninstalled (list attached if anyone has any interest), apart from the games (most which I probably won't play again, due to bored or completed), I suppose a Windows reinstall wasn't a bad idea anyway. Document.zip

I can't comment on anything posted since the video. All I can say is, that I wish when FME was in it's early years, that I was more interested in seeing older machines emulated, than the latest Scorpion 4 and MPU5 machines of the time. One day these, will be old machines, with some memories for people, but it won't make them any more entertaining.

Great to see the reel lamps working. Many of the older tech machines in particularly need them for several features.

As Vecs said, tick the lockout tab in the coin input. I.E. The properties window for the coin input.

I remember it not working, I think it alarmed the machine in the emulator or the reel didn't stop spinning. You'd have to go back to the original release thread (possibly on MSN board) or perhaps try the res layout in v6 or v6.5 of the emulator and take the feature. I would have a go myself at seeing if I could find details, but I'm away from home for the best part of two weeks, so probably won't have much time to search around looking for it.

I've mentioned it before, but I have clear memories of Winner Takes All, turning up in one of my regular haunts in the Edgware Road near Paddington Station. If you ever played it, you would remember the mystery being absolutely brutal. A little bit of FME trivia for this machine, the even money feature didn't work in early versions of the emulator.

Have a watch of Degsy video on it and his follow up video as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCmsHvp3eYA&ab_channel=DegsyDegworth Basically at the moment there is no function to create user arcades or put our machines in. Everything is put in by John manually, including layouts, which need cabs to be drawn, because of course in MFME nothing is actually in a 3D cab and John currently has to make the cabs himself. In the future, the plan is, we will be able to create our own arcades and put our own machines in them.

Rip Sir Clive. A man who came into and influenced my life from an 11 year old boy. A chance meeting with a ZX81, as I didn't really want to go, but went with my mum to her friends house for the evening. My mums friend Beryl, said to a bored 11 year old me, go upstairs and ask Tony to look at this new computer thing he's got. Over the next few hours, I genuinely don't think I had been that excited or captivated by anything so much in my short life up to the time. That led to a ZX81 of my own, then a ZX Spectrum 48k later and my fascination with computing/electronics/gadgets and computer games still lives with me 40 years later.

We've surely had this discussion before

Not wishing to put a downer on thing, but before spending hard earned cash remember.... AT THE MOMENT, Arcade Simulator is basically a very nice to look at visual representation of a fruit machine arcade, that is buggy, very incomplete and does not offer anywhere near the amount of options and bells and whistles that MFME does. You buying hundreds of £'s worth of kit, does not guarantee, it will not be stopped in production tomorrow or at any time and you basically end up dropping a tons of money on a device for a very nice tech demo. If you are happy with that and are not going to be sat here in the future saying, I spent xx on a decent laptop and the thing I bought it for was never finished, then go ahead.

I believe the mirror over the DOND reel, is considered a reel lamp, so hopefully they will simply work, once reel lamps are implemented.

A couple for the layout bug sheet. Same issue appears to affect two machines. Wild Jackpots and Rise To the Top, the hi-lo reel is unreadable due to corruption.

https://www.desertislandfruits.com/forum/index.php?/portal/ You should see it on the right hand side of this page, if you're on a PC/Laptop. If your on a mobile device it may be in a different position on the page.

This is seriously getting better and better. If it continues to progress as planned, I can see a future, where I will probably play MFME via the arcade interface. Will try to not point out bugs already mentioned and seen, so have done a search on the thread. Indiana Jones pays out in 20p's only, not sure if that's a known issue.

I don't do side art, but there will be plenty around here who can advise you.