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At my local charity shop, so it's going in to my car!

Would just like to say a huge thank you to Stef (matrixnetuk) for the awesome gift of this Simpsons fruit machine video of it will follow soon

Crickey you have good charity shops,ours have jigsaw puzzels from the 70s ffs.Great find and a bargain.Looks that battery has just started to cause hassel like my crystal maze.Mick is the man for sure.Well done mate.keep us posted

Nice find. Its great when machines turn up like this. It's happened to me a few times 🤣😉

If you're giving machines away Stef then I'll take that shitty old NDUD that you don't really want!

Happy Days Ben, so happy it made it to you in one piece :-) :-) :-)

Nice one, hope they have a gaming license

Set on 20p 92%with the jackpot at £4.80p tokensthanks to the rom provider, ploggy for his tech help, old skooler , superbank ,for the pre release bashand to wizard for the amazing emulator jimbo bold font enclosed. unpublished layout is kept in case someone is doing a dx XPRESS4.80.zip

Here we have a re-release of Maygay's Club Great Escape now that the sound roms have turned up thanks to Ross for getting the roms and Vectra666 for letting me know they had turned up. Shortcuts can be found in the notes section of the layout Enjoy. Club Great Escape.zip

Made these versions i had while back but due to the reel spin speed i thought i'd wait till mfme v19 was released, and now it is. you'll notice these will run better than the £10 version i did for v6, I've included the £10 version as i've brightened the buttons up on this one, plus its including coin effects Thanks goto richy1976 for image used, and adding coin effects etc hitthesix for the original £8/£5/£10 layout for lamping purposes not had the jackpot hold after its first win yet, so let me know if it does, cheers. If anyone can get hold of the £6 tokens set please upload as i've the artwork prepped for this version too. Again PLAY THESE IN MFME V19+ ONLY Enjoy and Happy gaming!!! BAR-X £4-£8-20p Dx v19.zip BAR-X £5-10p & £10-20p Dx v19.zip

Next up is a 90's machine on £8 tokens its Bfm's Make a Million, whether you made a million or it took a miilion well that's your story it comes from the popular slots of the era with the likes of jumping jack flash, showtime spectacular, easy money, money to burn etc Thanks goto The original Bfmeumalator layout and its creator, of which tommy c kindly converted for me a few years back The Ebay seller's image of which i made this layout from which incidentally is a tad rough in places but can't be helped!! Mavroz for the small section of reel band used for some symbols Richy1976 for adding coin effects Shortcuts are Start = Spacebar Play the Game = P Stop/Collect = S/C Holds = 1,2,3 Hi = 2, Lo = 3 Cancel = ` Take the Feature = F Tokens in = 9 £1's in = 0 THIS LAYOUT PLAYS IN MFME V19 or above (currently 19.1 available from desertislandfruits.) Enjoy and Happy Gaming!!!! Bfm's Make A Million £8 Dx.zip

Next up is this old skool favourite of retro players up and down the country, Cloud 999. In the Zip file is two versions, a lamps blended and a lamps Un-blended version. I've added both if the blended version runs too slow on your pc then the un-blended one is quicker. On the Blended version you may notice a few lamps and the first reel "jump" slightly, this is cured in mfme v19 same goes for the speed due to the blended lamps it may run slower in v6.1 but again it's vastly improved when v19 is released. Now the Thanks Firstly to Kriss for the original 1280dx version used for the majority of lamping positions A Big thankyou to Line Up Chris via the Mecca for uploading Hi Quality photos of the reel symbols, its thanks to these guys who own the older or any machines for giving us the images/roms for these classic machines Finally to Richy1976 who has help greatly with the blended lamps around the cabinet edges form id'ing various lamps to adding the correct masks to them, and adding coin in/out effects. Shortcuts are as standard. So Finally Enjoy it like its the 90's and Happy Gaming!!! Cloud 999 Dx's.zip

Hi Guys I finally finished off Spot Light this morning, so it is now ready for everyone to enjoy using MFMEv19.4. A big thanks to the following people on this site, for the resources they provided. Launton for roms, and base reel symbols. Pete W for uploading the Spot Light picture to the gallery. And Richy100 for the additional, very interesting flyer that I put in the download folder. Additional thanks go to Richy1976(fruit-emu.com) for coin sounds. And finally a huge thanks goes to Wizard, for testing, additional technical help, and of course for providing MFME to all of us, and all his continuous support:)) Short cuts are in the Read Me file. Download: Spot Light v1.zip Have fun guys! </Frig>

Bullion Bars Platinum 3 Player £25 DX (astra) DX Layout Best Played On MFME 6.1 Enjoy Friends 👇 Download Link Below 👇 Bullion Bars Platinum 3 Player £25 DX (astra).rar

Following on from Richy1976's excellent Hit the Six layout is another project machine in the form of Jokers Wild Thanks goto to Launton for images/reel symbols which was used in my original mini layout of this back in 2013, to members such as Ploggy, Tommy C, Captain Haddock for help with that layout Moving onto this bigger sized layout, to Richy1976 for adding the coin effects and final lamp numbering help Long Shot!! But if any one can help but we had a slight conflict with the lamp in the top letter "d" as it didn't seam to flash correctly so if anyone has this machine can they find the lamp number it uses. Shortcuts are as Standard Plays in Mfme 6.1+ Enjoy it all over Again and Happy Gaming!!!! Project's Jokers Wild £4 Dx Mfme6.1.zip

Hi Guys This one is specially for RobT, who supported this project with Roms, pictures and valuable feedback. 1981 Barcrest Rock On DX - MPU2 You will need the latest version of MFME which is currently v19.4, due to an update Mr Wizard did on MPU2/3 emulation, that improves the performance of this machine and others running the same tech. Thanks goes to RobT for his fantastic support! Launton for his great quality reel fruit scans, and especially for sending me a nice Apple:) Thanks also goes to Hitthesix for setting this project up, Richy1976 for organizing the sound files, and finally Mr Wizard for the amazing MFME and the fantastic updates he has done:)) Here is the layout: ROCK-ON v1.zip Long Live MFME! </Frig>

I used to have 2 pachislo machines. There should be a volume control on the inside back of the door.

I remember you saying you were letting ben have it.Nice one steff,and no doubt he is over the moon with it.Mind you,nice machine

First dutch machine i ever worked on. BFM did shit loads of dutch machines. This one was on the production line in (i think 1992). The biggest seller was Club 2000. We made thosands of them, we even did rebuilds.

Nice find! It is a good machine. have played it on 5p 4pound and it plays a nice game.

Excellent! Thanks.

It's been a while since I did a release due to ill health and struggling to log into this site after the upgrade about 6 months ago. As I don't have the email address I signed up to the Mecca with I have had to re register, I've done my old username with a full stop on the end. Here is a re release of the Bouncer Classic I did quite a few years back. Thanks to Wizard it now has the sounds such a big part of these system 80 machines. I would like to thank Ploggy for setting up the original sytem 80 blank layout used. Also thank you to Simon(Nudge Shuffle ) for taking time out to photograph the correct reel symbols and fonts which are used on this update. Thanks also to Pete W and Red Rose Leisure for the roms. This update also features the payout sounds and does the token payout sounds. For me this and it's clones were my favourite machines of all time. I felt it was quite forward thinking for it's time and it plays a simple but addictive game. The thrill when it feature holds after nudges and adds loads more, also the thrill when you hold the middle melon on the Bouncer feature thinking will the 3rd one stop first! Super machine. Hope you enjoy Alex jpmbouncer.rar

Excellent. I love the old PCP's.

Well. this granny/grandad loved playing them. 😄

Thanks to the rom provider, tommy c for the playtest and assuring me the features are random. it was doing my nut in 😠 ;D , also to dad and superbank for the pre release bash. and to spa for the images on his google drive. and of course the usual massive thanks to the main man himself, wizard.for this amazing emulator one set on 2p with the jackpot at £1 2 set on 20p with the jackpot at £4.80p dx will be done by dp cashablanca 2p.zip cashablanca 20P.zip

Thanks. Another version of one of my favourite machines.

Set on 20p 92%with the jackpot at £4.80p cashthanks to the rom provider, ploggy for his tech help, old skooler , superbank ,for the pre release bashand to wizard for the amazing emulator Starstruck 4.80 all cash.zip

Thanks. I do like these simple games.

Wondered if Frank reconized these machines? Exported I think

Ah, the memories. Thanks.

Thanks for these. Something to play with this weekend.

Hopefully he want be so early to me with it tomorrow but it is a morning appointment he just said so I am ready for an 8am knock lol

The only version done is the Dutch version like Barcrest Junky has shown above. The UK version, which I assume is the one originally shown, hasn't been done. Got a picture of the UK version. Came from riche100 originally.

£10 version available here- Bfm's Make A Million £10 Dx.zip

Don't know if you've put this on the backburner, or not, but I've found a decent picture of this if you want it. Got the picture off EBAY. Should help out a bit if you ever get back to it.

Dutch export, Here is one of the machines from 1980 Rich..

Hi chaps Got myself my third electro machine last night. This one is called Pub Climber and is a conversion of Bell Fruit Ten Up on 10p play £2 jackpot. It's currently on all cash payout using the current. steel 10p's,but I am hoping to convert it back to old 10s and tokens,and to link up the studs to enhance the game play. I have done a video here for those who haven't seen this before. Hope you enjoy watching it. Cheers👍👍👍 Chris217

Nothing on the glass or in the machine. Looking at the symbols suggest its MDM if you compare them to MDM Nudge Count Up.

Jackpot at last on Pub Climber

Removing credit counters for single coin credit on electro's was simply to avoid tube starvation. With the credit counter that could hold a vast amount of credit and the later introduction of the 50p coin for change, if the machine went into a high sequence of payouts there would be the chance of very little amounts of coins going back into the tubes to refill so run empty, Most electro AWPs especially only held £14 in 10p coins. Adding strimming which became a serious problem on the S1 mechs so a credit counter would assist many a scammer. Pub landlords in the 70s were culprits for not helping tube starvation by using the 50p mech for change, the 50p for 1 credit and 40p change was brought in to help deter them. Although good for holding multiple credits, credit counters did have a drawback of regularly sticking either preventing the correct credits being added or the subtract solenoid jamming, even return spring breaking would prevent the count down of credits resulting in free plays. If you wanted to make an electro with single coin entry machine into multiple without adding electronic circuits you would virtually have to either add a relay and timer switch for each credit or a rotary stepper unit.

Mpu4, Dip 2.8

ADMC were well known for rebuilds especially on Bell Fruit base electro machines in both awp and club versions. A company profile from 1979

Yes there is a white cabinet version and a penny spinner was around about the same time

Thanks!

I have a couple of sets of reels here I thought it might be good to start a thread with the help of pictures on what's involved in a step by step guide of the strip down,service and rebuild of these mechanical parts. Some electro owners have their own way to strip and service these reels which is fine with the same results, this way is my own which I find easiest for me. This first set of reels are out of a Bell Fruit Ten Up. This is a four reel machine but the working parts are the same on a three reel set with only one reel less. A good tip is to take pictures of everything on your own reel deck as you move along so if you do happen to get stuck with many of the parts you will know exactly where they belong.. The reels in early electro machines are held secure in position by two clamps at the back, later models had two brackets mounted on either end plate of the reels and secured by two bolts accessed under the reel shelf. once released and the reel loom plugs disconnected the reels will lift out from the machine. Part 1. First job is to remove the drive belt along with the two drive cogs on the reel and motor shafts. the cogs both have two hex bolts each to secure them to the drive shafts and may need a pair of pliers to help crack them loose as they have to be very tight. both these drive cogs are identical so no need to mark which came from where as they can go back on either drive shaft when rebuilding.. Next the reel motor... Bell Fruit used BA socket sizes for the smaller nuts and bolts on their machines in the 70s so anyone like me with socket drivers the bolt size holding the reel motor is 4BA or approx. 6mm but first remove the two wired spade connections to the motor before removing the four securing bolts, this will allow the heavy reel motor to be removed from the reel deck and place to one side... All being well you should have these parts removed.

I do hope though, we do eventually get the pleasure of playing the UK Sinbad AWP.

If you want to take hi res photos of your say no more, including reel symbols etc I'm sure one of us dxers will create a brand new dx layout for it pleaseMaybe a rom dump of the £6 version too if you can afaik we've only got the £4.80 set

We never thought we would see this beauty from Jpm emulated but here we go. One of the nicest feelings when roms to a classic machine we never thought would be emulated turn up. Thank you so much Riche 100 who achieved mission impossible by discovering a Silver Ghost and then kindly provided the roms. Very grateful to you. Thanks to Wizard for sorting all the 7segs, meters and some coin input tweaks on the Silverreels classic I did, which was used as a base for this release. Wonderful machine by jpm. I very much remember branches of Nobles having rows of 4 or 5 of these and them all being played. Attractive glass design with the need for few bulbs, great gameplay, and good sounds going up a pitch fore each win obtained up the scale. So simple but so clever. I always thought these were an original base machine but they were in fact a rebuild on Supa Steppas and Bar 7. That feeling when two bars come on the first twp reels and that third one comes. Sometimes you could get a right run of 50p wins on. I remember as a kid when down to my last 20p or something, normally played 2p ers but I would put last bit into a Silver Ghost praying for a win then if I got 50p or more! would go back to Win A Gain or something similar and play for ages. This does like to drop 3 x 7's in from time to time aswell. Whoever wrote this game should be extremely proud of themselves. A simple machine, very entertaining, decent wins for player, and decent profits for the operator. Hope you enjoy Alex Silver Ghost (sys 80).rar

http://www.desertislandfruits.com/forum/index.php?/topic/115-a-moment-in-time/

so to continue, thats the jist of some of them, theres lots more: Bellfruit Games: Probably *the* origional and best modern machine creator out there, if you take modern meaning the early 70s on. They dominated the electro market in the 70s and 80s, there wasnt an arcade anywhere that didnt embrace the bellfruit machine, but they made some pretty good electronic platforms too.... Black box revision one- Two board sandwich in a metal case, tended to heat up a lot, Could develop some strange and frustrating faults. But a compact little computer, used the standard electromechanical reel system with triacs controlling the stop solenoids. Brought us some of the best known classics like firecracker, upstairs downstairs etc. Black box revision two- Same two board system with an NVRAM card added. Used stepper motors instead of electro reels. Nice machines on this platform, usually in that BFM small cab (two step etc). The internals of these cabs were quite daunting for ops of the day, let alone us collectors! System 83- stroke of genius by BFM, brought us some of the most entertaining games of the day. Good robust tech, and indestructable cabinets! System 85- actually came out in 1984. I know this because I have a system85 machine in a system 83 cab with an 84 date on the inspection sticker. Nice reliable tech it was, straightforward PCB layout, easily repaired then and now. Unlike JPMs etc it used a MC6800 CPU which was common on several diffrent techs of the day so it was easy for arcade ops to repair these. Probably my favourite BFM tech of all of them. System 88/89 (later named scorpion1) This was BFM growing up I think. Games were more advanced, sampled sound made an appearance. Scorpion platform was again very straightforward, but I think they had one or two flaws in the design. Rattly reel motors for one, and why was there airvents cut underneath the lamp resistors? You would think they would have rated the parts accordingly. Nevertheless, scorpion machines wiped the floor with the rolltop MPU4s at the time. Scorpion 2 - came out 1991/92 I think , someone will correct me. BFM made some drastic design changes to the scorpion platform and utilised FPGA chip technology to give their system some decent security, and to simplify some of the PCB design. Ive yet to figure out what this security actually is, I think it was just a case of scrambling the ROM address and data lines or something. Scorpion 4 (scorpion3 I dunno, mabye in house revision) - One of the most bloddy unreliable power supplies in existance came with this platform. Which is a pity becuase the PCB design is straightforward, SIMPLER than scorpion 2 believe it or not, and yet still easy for the hobbyist to repair. Its that damn switching PSU that lets it down, theres scorp4s switched off all over the country that are perfectly good MPU wise but have broken PSUs. I know one arcade alone with 8 machines having this issue. You can also get reel failures through the reel power rails drifting out of range, burning up the reel transistors. Six reel scorp4s are prone to this in particular. scorp 5- too new for me to bang on about!