Fruit Machine Chat

Hello bud and Welcome to Fruit Chat. Emulators are available on Http://www.fruit-emu.com they play exactly the same as a real fruit machine and can be downloaded for free.

You need an emulator to load the layout files along with a ROM. All these and more info can be found on the above site.

Take care

The term 'emulation' is where the PC is given the impression that it's another machine. It boots up like said machine and plays exactly like it. You can emulate older computers like BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Sega Megadrive, anything really if you were brought up in the 80s / 90s. The actual games are downloaded as disk images. A bit like taking an ISO image of a CD. It's not one massive program that emulates all of the computers though. You need a different program for each computer e.g. Beebem for the BBC and Fusion for the Megadrive. There was a time where you need a different emulator for different fruit machine technologies but they have now mostly converged into one software package. I think JMP/Impact remains separate though - you need "JPEmu" for that.

Emulation isn't the same as simulation though. Simulation attempts to be close to the real thing, entirely through software being written from the ground up. Emulation is like a sandbox, an environment where the machine in question can exist (logically) within your PC and it behaves like-to-like because it's using software/BIOS/ROMs extracted from the machine.