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It’s nice to see old threads still being helpful and added to after over a decade. i was in my 40s then and by the end of next week I will be in my 60s.👨‍🦳👴

Just a small project here as i have been having issues with my JPM Hot Pot(MPS1) The main fault was sometimes not accepting certain coins for no reason and the odd missed payout and as the fault was on and off action is needed The fault was caused by the pins in HD10(the coin interface plug) << As can be seen the pins are shot with some of them pushing in << Start the extraction one pin at a time << First pin out << some nice shiny new molex pins ready to go in << Using this way over expensive tool(about £230+vat ) << Pin in tool << First 3 done << And repeat until all pins done << to be safe i did the 50v supply that's on the same loom << fits nice and easy now and no waggling to get the plug on All Done << Machine now works 100% and flawlessly and should be good for another 30 years A small project i know but another repair procedure now worked out

Hi chaps and chapesses or any other persuasion you happen to have. I've been thinking of getting one of these devices for a while now and as I fancied a bit of a play I splashed out and bought one. You have to buy them as a kit and source your own parts which is easy for me as I had most of them. Full kits do appear on Ebay from time to time with a price to match. The PCB's come from Retro lemon and you can buy them with or without the main processor although it's probably not worth the hassle unless you have SMD soldering facilities. Anyway, I've just completed the build and it worked first time (apart from all the LED's I'd put in the wrong way round). It can test an ever expanding number of RAM, CMOS, TTL chips plus PAL's GAL's and all odds and sods of USSR chips etc. Just as a sample here's a 6116 RAM chip under test. Rotate.mp4 You can buy lots of additional adaptors for all sorts of unusual devices but I just went for the basic to start with. There is an extensive manual too covering the build, parts list and an even larger user manual. Early days yet but I think this is going to come in extremely handy. The only issue I have at present is I can't 3D print a case for it as it's just a centimeter or two bigger than my printer base.

Just treated myself to one of these and got the adapter set whilst i was at it, i am about 3/4 way through building it. I was torn between this and the backbit tester but went for the RCT as it appears to test a lot more ICs, although having said that the backbit does have a 40 pin zif and seems to do more of the old school processors and PIAs etc, the sort found in the old 80s computers (Commodore, Atari, Spectrum etc). Might save up and get the backbit as well at a later date if i feel i would benefit from it. One thing whilst building it i found a job that is almost as bad as PAT testing and that is grading zener diodes🤣

Hi and welcome. If emulation is your interest you would be better off going over to desert island fruits which is all about emulation including files and roms. This site is mainly geared up towards the real physical fruit machine hardware etc. https://www.desertislandfruits.com/ Good luck on your ventures.

Hello "For fun only" was the law. To say that these machines didn't make money. (what a joke) So on these French versions, there are no tubes for coins. If I won, for example, 500 francs, I signaled to the café owner, who came to note the win. He pressed a button on top of the machine, which reset the counter to zero. And gave me my 500 francs in cash. The machine was ready again. Here are some photos.

I've already asked him and it was was a 'no' as it won't ever support 40 pin devices. Shame that but as Andrew says even some of the well known testers aren't that reliable with CPU's, PIO's etc.