Fruit Machine Chat

Right, my original post went walkabout for this, so I'll post it again. Copy these lines of text into a file called cheat.dat : ; [Give us a Break] :guab:00300000:08002C:00000064:FFFFFFFF:GUAB Credits :guab3:00300000:08002C:00000064:FFFFFFFF:GUAB3 Credits Run age -cheat (create a shortcut if you hav...

They switched question sets very quickly in those days, but the way it's coded is to have set banks of questions for different stages of readiness. I actually saw one still in place a few years back, so it must still be reasonably OK. Actually, the hardware was the problem, not all that suited to lo...

I don't know about SWP finger, but back in the day of playing the old trackball based machines (Marble Madness, etc), I used to get my hand trapped between the ball and the control panel, which usually cost me some skin off my palm. Perhaps it was just bad technique, since it seemd to happen to me o...

I'm currently gathering information together to attempt to rebuild one of these , and would like to ask a few questions to anyone who already has one in their posession. Mainly, I'm concerned about how the trackball is connected to the main board, as there don't seem to be enough connection points f...

The speed of the timer is related to some bizarre hardware protection thing - all the communication between the main IMPACT board (like in any JPM AWP of that era) and the special video handling board is governed by a microcntroller. Since we can't dump it to get the program out, its operation has b...

Can't answer about ROMs, but if you've downloaded the AGEMAME exe you just put the ROM files into the roms folder, double click on age.exe and start typing the name of the game into the text box. Another alternative is to get the ROMs and drag the ZIP file onto the exe, that should load things up to...

Strange, I've used the debugging tools at my disposal and it is writing something to that space in A Question of Sport, but the rest of the games that should be on the same hardware aren't bothering. What's weird is that practically every Bellfruit PCB using that particular processor has the same NV...

Probably not from your end - I was led to believe that the NVRAM saving was correct in those ames, but if it's erroring out every time then that needs looking at. I've not really done any work on that driver so I'd have to look more closely at that to see where the problem lies.

MAME has the interface too - AGEMAME just takes non-gambling games out, and has added support for AWP machines. You might as well use MAME for playing these quiz games, since there's nothing any different in the coding.

I'll look into the apparent problems with the bonus key, I think it does work, but only in certain circumstances in game. Also, ESC has a communications bug that stops the prize game from working.

Hi, Just wanted to post here about quiz machines in MAME. I'm still working on Crystal Maze (the Barcrest version) - it uses a slightly weird hardware setup in that you've got an original MPU4 PCB in there handling the coins and inputs, which then connects via a serial link to the board that runs th...