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he isnt known as ronocle the Oracle for nothing happy days

A few pictures collected but lucky to have a time machine in the form of an extensive number of Coin Slots. A couple from 60s and 70s but main collection from mid 1979 through to 1994 with a few mixed later copies. I have scanned a number few pages as required but would take some time to sort out all the relevant machine pages, The collection of papers show many new machine and used sales adverts from both major manufactures and smaller companies over those years.

1966

Just got to get the machine internally to 100% next. There was also vibrating distortion coming from the speaker... but I'm 20p richer than I was before 😂

Those were the best years @BF74, my childhood mixed with my exploitive years, you always bring back the memories with those retro black and white snippets. 99% of the time you always produce the goods, that is what I love most about here and with DIF too on the main emulation side (although there are some pretty fine layouts here which I've nicked😉) it is, in a nutshell, the whole package. Hope you don't mind and will ask permission if I can nick some of your papers and snippets within your profile, blow them up and put them on my walls in frames and no I won't do it anyway as respect others wishes.

yeah, between us all we could fill in a lot of gaps ... ... they didn't mention this one but a cracker it looks ... what AL based Big Apple on? (saving a space in my lounge for one of these)

Hi-de-Hi, Hi-De-Ho!!!, Bing Bong, Hello Campers, its back to the old skool with this Token slot of the 90's Win some Hard cash or some free beer with a token streak!! Thanks goto- The Original creators of the 2006 Dx layout, Pete, Bugs & Pandy from which i gained the lamps reels etc Shortcuts written within the notice within the game Plays in MFME V20.1 Enjoy and Happy Gaming!!!! P.s do we have any earlier rom versions of this anything under v04?? Ace's Hi-De-Hi £4.80 Dx.zip

Way down in the jungle deep, drums are drumming to the monkeys beat with this clubber from global "king of the swingers" Thanks goto @Clo06 for her classic layout used as a base to Matty L from here for providing me with pictures of this machine, including the reel symbols and all roms used within the layout hopefully more to come from him in the near future!! Shortcuts listed within the notes Play this in MFME V20.1 Enjoy and Happy Gaming!!! Club King of the Swingers Dx's.zip

Finally picked up a scorp1 to use as a test machine last week. Here's the first Scorp1 repair completed: Fairly light damage, the AY8910 did not need to come off but i re'did most of the audio(scraped all the bubbling off). Also fitted new Electrolytic caps everywhere on the board. I think because the Audio caps were new there was short delay for them to take charge so the first few seconds there was nothing through then the sound seem to 'tune in' which I was thrilled with 😎 20201009_172058.mp4

Yeah if it beeps it's usually good enough... seems like your meter is picking up a tiny bit of resistance. What value is it 0.5 ohms? That pin needs to receive a solid 5v or the board won't work... thats probably getting a bit hard to measure yourself. Your board has low damage to the copper traces (usually these are totalled) but it could still be faulty in a number of ways as Andrew said there's corrosion there so cpu/transistors etc could be faulty. I'm still thinking to try a power supply first and hope you get lucky on that board personally. There's alot of people get to this stage with Epochs and get frustrated.

Statto’s the boy mate he remembers machines barcrest etc forgot they made.

1974.

haha, you not getting off that easy! not old enough to remember but like you, interested in the details (would be happy to curate a page for Carfield/DN, Summit and aforementioned R.V.S. if it took off, maybe even Barcrest MPU1&2, if no one else up for it - maybe focus initially on periods of production for the bigger companies whose output spanned several decades, then compile master lists later?) lot of the 70's rebuilds, is difficult to know who was behind them without names on glass but sometimes you can make an educated guess, like when a MAM Inn Play Lucky Stepper turned up recently, looks to be a sister machine to Pound Maker/Pound Stretcher - guess there might be a whole separate list for "currently unknown operators Bell-Fruit electro rebuilds" and the like reckon there's members or folk around who have good knowledge/collections of some of the more obscure/less talked about games - this pic looked to have been taken in a row of similar machines know people have pulled images from ebay etc. for years, if they see something of personal interest - is a shame the gallery hasn't expanded as much as it could have done maybe someone is already working on it, offline, who knows just imagine the little nuggets of info and anecdotes that might pop up from time to time if we all got behind it

Your hired! When can you start Paul?

would be interesting to see (at a glance) what new games were competing with each other in any given season, any year, from say 1975-95 (and older) probably no more than about a dozen games in any year, from any one manufacturer (club machines and AWPs), for domestic market but be interesting to get input from members in mainland europe and beyond, on export games by british manufacturers (although some would be dual release, under different names on different stake etc.) a comprehensive trade paper collection would be invaluable for dates (years of release) where jackpot values fall into the generally 3yr bands (JPM, Maygay and Summit Coin were pretty good for dating final inspection labels/plates, some of the others carried less info) fairly big undertaking for any one person (to include all rebuilds) but yeah, could be done collectively, as a community effort (would be nice to be able to customise how the info is presented, so you could search by year/manufacturer/jackpot/game type etc. and kinda wants to be clickable (linked), for purpose of adding in info like photos of machines/glass/flyers/adverts etc., which is prob not gonna work within confines of current forum thread pages) maybe to start, a separate forum area and page (thread) for each manufacturer? (with person starting thread for that manufacturer undertaking to edit first post list as new info comes in subsequent posts, then discussion can run pages but list grows on first post of first page of that thread) people could start dedicated year thread pages too, if for example they had a particular interest in a certain year and pull info from manufacturer lists into a year list ... just a thought (pretty sure with the amount of games Nifty played in the 80's, if we could plug him in and download his memory banks we could have that decade pretty much sewn up in less than a week!)