Now that the latest game

[pickareel]

i think it's the people that ring everyone as soon as a clue gets out,its annoying when u hear about these players that have been in the game 10years + still dont understand how to keep there mouth shut and proceed to pass/sell tricks on.

[thecannonball89]

Whats rat level?

My definition of rat is the following...and fully accept it's not the same as others definitions!

1. Anyone who's started playing semi/full time since £15 jackpots ended.
2. Anyone who dresses like a chav.
3. Anyone who brings it on top for better players.
4. Anyone who does a machine behind someone elses back despite previous agreements.
5. Anyone who drives a modified car on their route. (refer to point 2).

And any other points I've forgot to list.

Number1 is a joke, there are decent players about he never played a £15

[badders2]

a rat is someone gets free info because they watch how people do it and pass it on which none of realise is usally the bloke sat by the machine

[uber-pro]

A rat is someone who doesn't respect that fact that we are so so so so so priviledged to be able to make the serious income we can and subseqently is short sighted with info.

Or/and

Someone who instantly phones their entire phone book to pass on info so they look cool.

Or/and

Someone who sits on MSN all night bumming themselves up with other fruitchatters but never actually leaves the house.

Or/and

Someone who bumps into other players the drops your name and subsequently cause questions to be asked (i.e. "what you doing talking to an idiot like that")

Or/and

Someone who works full time but does any / all of the above

Most importantly tho:

Someone who's incapable of understanding the basic programming and figuring stuff out for themselves.

[Been-Grant-Mitchell'd!]

A rat is a girl called Tara who's a bit backward.

[betchrider]

Somebody whos mummy and daddy bankroll em anyway

[uber-pro]

Naw, thats a booster!

[Mystery_Plum]

Most importantly tho:

Someone who's incapable of understanding the basic programming and figuring stuff out for themselves.

Imagine if today's fruits were coded in BASIC, like Fabulous Wanda on the Commodore 64. How cool would that be?

10 GETWIN, IF COLLECT WIN, GOTO 20
20 DECREMENT CONTROLLER
30 SET LOSING GAME COUNT TO 55, GOTO 40
40 IF NAME = MATT, THEN 50; ELSE 60
50 SET LOSING GAME COUNT TO 1
60 IF BFG CLUBBER, START STICKING MONEY INTO VARIOUS POTS FOR SOME RANDOM PUNTER IN TWO WEEKS; ELSE 340
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340 WAITSTART


Fucking top-notch

*rubs hands together*

[Been-Grant-Mitchell'd!]

Programming in basic! Bloody hell that stirs a memory or two!

A$=Inkey$
If A$="Y"or"y" Then1070 Else220

it was cruel but funny to pursuade a classmate to put "Call0" in his program it took him a couple of hours to write just to see the computer reset itself when he ran it.

I was really proud of myself when I got my national diploma in IT back in '94 only to be told 2 years later it was useless.

[uber-pro]

10 PRINT "S"
20 PAUSE 20
30 PRINT "SK"
40 PAUSE 18
50 PRINT "SKI"
60 PAUSE 16
70 PRINT "SKIL"
80 PAUSE 14
90 PRINT "SKILL"
100 PAUSE 12
110 PRINT "SKILLS"
120 PAUSE 10
130 PRINT "SKILLST"
140 PAUSE 8
150 PRINT "SKILLSTO"
160 PAUSE 6
170 PRINT "SKILLSTOP"
180 GOTO 10

Esc key is start button.

(should probably make it go backwards and need clear screens in there too, but enough time wasted on this post...)

[mr lugsy]

gamestec critical update:



10 PRINT "S"
20 PAUSE 10
30 PRINT "SK"
40 PAUSE 8
50 PRINT "SKI"
60 PAUSE 6
70 PRINT "SKIL"
80 PAUSE 4
90 PRINT "SKILL"
100 PAUSE 2
110 PRINT "SKILLS"
120 PAUSE 1
130 PRINT "SKILLST"
140 PAUSE 0.5
150 PRINT "SKILLSTO"
160 PAUSE 0.5
170 PRINT "SKILLST"
180 GOTO 10

[Matt Vinyl]

Ha-ha!!

I remember my Brother and I programming 'fruit machines' in basic! Text for everything. Funnily, we used a similar 'random' technique to that employed in 'modern' random machines.

I.E, a random number between 0 and 50 is selected.

0-30 = 3 random non-matching fruits
31-40 = 3 cherries
41-45 = 3 apples
46-48 = 3 melons
49-50 = 3 Bells

There was also a randomly occuring 'feature', whereby cash amounts would randomly appear around the screen and you had to hit space bar when a decent amount was there.

Heh, I was only about 12 and only knew 'fruit machines' from playing the C64 ones.