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PCP - Moneyline & Loony BinTech: MPU3Here's 2 identical machines with 1 slight difference, the reel feature on Loony bin you stop the centre reel for a chance of a 2 or 3 of a kind win, and on Moneyline it's the left reel for a 2 of a kind win or sometimes a 3 of a kind win.Keyboard shortcuts in the notes.Thanks toWizard (RIP) for MFME@Amot for the Moneyline Roms & ImagesThe Loony Bin rom provider@riche100 for the Loony Bin flyer@AK45 for testing.Plays in MFME V20.1 only. Money Line.zip Loony Bin.zip

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Thanks people, I feel privileged to have been there during those heady days, and grateful you find my ramblings entertaining! That Roulette machine was around 1980-1 as far as I remember, I only know that as it was the last few years of my time in the 'rebranded by me' Customer Service Department. In answer to the 'what was the system', we were looking at video products like poker and Roulette as they were big at the time and JJ (Jack Jones - J in JPM) wanted to break into America and we had tried the America product with a nudge which didn't work very well and poker was seen as a good way to give it another go. You may know this, because I know you guys are so knowledgeable, that JPM had its own Video gaming departure and assembled various early games, I had nothing to do with that venture so I only knew of it from a distance. What I do know are two things. The Roulette machine was quite popular in France and the controller had a separate, single, memory and processor module. At that time a company in France, one Jeutel as I remember, were extremely swift in taking games and back engineering the software and creating their own copy of the product. In order to overcome that it was decided that we would POT the controller in an Epoxy compound that would make it particularly difficult to get at the devices and this product was tested on site in Newport, South Wales in an inland arcade. The product stood up well so we continued and several were sent to France where most of the interest had originally been generated from. There were several venues that were associated with Vinyards as I recall or perhaps it was owners of Vinyards had arcades. Forgive me I was the monkey not the organ grinder. In any case as you may have guessed the temperature in the south of France is a little different to the South of Wales, where it rains lot! Dieu dieu! Quite soon the controllers were cooking themselves and the addition of extra slots in the back door and added fans did little to cool the product down. Can you see the roulette wheel on the video screen? Guess what? That is a printed vac forming with apertures to see the ball rotating beneath it, that is how basic the video was and that vac forming used to deform under heat as well - Nightmare. In any case I had a very pleasant time flying from place to place and driving to the odd one as well, armed as I was with new controllers and replacement vac forming. Not our best effort but the endeavours did open the way for video development and the whole Criss Cross thing. More of that later

Brilliant stuff thank you

Awesome work chloe

The 'Bally Look', still vital in the Nevada market at that time. No handle, though...

Very early days in video tech for fruity firms like yours frank so I guess it was always going to be trial and error and a constant threat of copyright too .Great insight into this side of the company .thanks

ive had a look sadly this is all i have at the moment Global wise : cash crazy all in a days work pick of the bunch heartbreak hotel grid runner trick or treat club greed the blackjack club tales of the unexpected super blackjack driving school screwing around thrill and spills king of the swingers wacky weekend its your call stake your claim licence to thrill fields of gold just the job monkey business classic cash up yer riggin whats up doc carry on clubbin chequered flag club dynamite pontoon club sorry

Get in the que John😜

Nice work. The 4 black switches on the left of the cab... you'll have to experiment with the combinations for JP and stake. It is possible to set it to an impossible combination but don't panic just turn it off and change it. The last four dip switches will change the %. It will take a few grand to get to jackpot so you will need a battery fitted to retain it's memory and once your happy with the settings don't change anything or it will Ram reset it. Enjoy

Yes you do Alan, I love the stories and the insight into the industry, it is compulsive reading 👌

Second that most definitely and spot on Alan

Don't forget Frank that you worked in the amusement industry in its golden age(late 70s and through 80s) along with the Arcades there was the computer and video game market flourishing at the same time and watching the tech grow over those years always a fascination of mine. Most on here would have been playing the machines you(and others) created back in the day(pubs,clubs,arcades) and when we all started reliving our youth 15-20 years ago by collecting and resorting machines and joining forums like this along with other like minded people we all learned off each other. To have an ex employee of JPM to come on here and share all those stories about how it all came together is for me as interesting(if not more)than the working of the machines themselves. Keep posting those memory's Frank they are a compulsive read. I think i speak for everyone on this forum.

Only the slot for the security card or whatever they called it.

was thinking the same or at least a version of it (GUAB hardware has no connectors or ports for memory cards).

Looks like an each way shuffle and a sidewinders love child.

Blimey, never seen one of those before. I wonder if it's the same hardware as Give Us A Break?

do you mean these jpm roulette machines frank ? , but obviously in francs ? i cant wait to hear your future content

No there are in pretty good condition considering there age,, all work except the blue ctl ews ..