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Some nice pictures there, mate. Might be able to get something done with them. Not much happening at the moment, so I'll see what I can do.

little story for those interested .. as a nipper in cornwall i remember sitting in front of for what seemed like hours on numerous occasions a bank of small fruit machines in a arcade in cornwall called the "pot of gold" amongst other establishments of the time, the mid to late 80s as a rough guess . the machine was called cash and carry by now i believe barcrest (back then i didnt know or care) anyway when i joined the mecca i dreamt of owning such a machine, various posts were stuck up, nothing happened apart from tumble weed blowing in .. anyway 4 or 5 years ago maybe more .... i was in cornwall on holiday at our static caravan when we owned one , and i was told to call somebody as they had seen my post . so sitting on the caravan step trying to get a signal i rang this number and spoke to the fella on the other end anyway he said he had a cash n carry and that i could have it, however he liked "deals" not money, so what had i got ... well i dont have fruit machines so couldnt offer him any , so he said well .......ive got a list of some machines i want if you get me one of them we can do a straight swop . i had a paper and pen with me at this point and he spilled out aload of classic titles like fruit snappa, silver ghost , reel crazy, amoungst others and right at the end he said bellfruit pussycat .... and i thought to myself well i reckon i might be able to get one of those , so after about 4 hours on the phone chatting what must have been shit to eachother about our lives and what he had etc , we left it that if i could find one on his list then the deal could / would be done . off i went , within 2 weeks i had seen brought and secured a pussy cat bellfruit clubber for 50 or 80 quid locally , i let the cash and carry man know straight away . however he was having some tuff life lessons and happenings so couldnt do anything until he was sorted and clear of it all, we all know life and family etc are more important than a fruit machine ever so i left it . he made me aware he was a man of his word so i didnt need to worry as it wasnt going anywhere else, no matter how long it too , but he should be sorted soon . anyway months passed , years passed with the odd message back and forth in between ourselves . well ............ as of a unplanned last minute road trip of 7 hours (round trip) and a swop of bellfruit pussy cat clubber i have the machine you see in attached pictures . i cannot say how happy i am to see one in the flesh etc and actually own it now after such a long time its going to be a marmite machine for many, as many will class it as boring but for me it holds a very special bond with me . so if the fella is reading this who now has a pussycat bellfruit clubber whom i met last night after so many years and things happening thank you so so very very much for allowing me to do the swop with you and for you keeping your word about the machine happy happy days .. if i could cartwheel i would .. i cant so i wont haha p.s there wont be a long resto thread about this machine, i want to get it working , the roms dumped and play and enjoy it

Fair play to you Delboy - you're the only person I've ever met who keeps a fruit machine in his wardrobe! Thanks for the vid, brings back a few good memories.

brilliant vid thanks very much for sharing rich . great little machine too

well after a tense week waiting for the roms to get dumped before i could have a look into whether the machine runs .. nick sulzer popping over to make the machine a lid as it was missing i am pleased to report that after a bit of trail and error with boards, the bridge recs on the psu and a few dip switches on bank 2 being on .. and a few bulbs changed it lives i am thrilled to bits awwweeessooommmme

Yeah thanks mate it's worth as I enjoy them 10 times more when then they are mint condition... I'm well happy with it now it's recounted and safe lol. We use Mirka Polar range for high gloss polishing lacquer at work... didn't quite trust the really really fine potent smelling ones as no idea if they'd harm the print on the back.

Brilliant work matty and hats off to you for persevering with it .the end result was well worth the effort .what rubbing compound do you use?

you guys have good memory... what have i been up 2? (quick version) - blood stained mondeo is now a mercedes - now have 2 young kids - still work for fruitsim Have decided to get back into fruites after a long loooooong time (also did not realise it was still being developed) @wizard How much do you know about the serial link? ie what protocal it is? exactly how fast it runs? Is it encrypted? Can you emulate it? Could we emulate it in hardware using a micro/fpga or maybe even directly from raspberry pi gpio(if fast enough) Good enough to trick the other io boards into thinking they are receiving/sending data to a real board?

found it... more pics in zip... FT.zip