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[junior21uk]

Dos anyone know if there is a emmlator for bingo ? like the ones you see at Gala or in fruit machine placers ?

would be great for the computer

Thanks for your help in advance

[johnjohn]

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just touch your monitor to mark off numbers

lol sorry couldnt help it

[cliffc]

Dos anyone know if there is a emmlator for bingo ? like the ones you see at Gala or in fruit machine placers ?

would be great for the computer

Thanks for your help in advance

Hi

Why would you want to i wrote a program for me ZX Spectrum years ago with the speech chip in that would call the numbers out and mark them on a board like in a real bingo club.

Cliff c

[todd1970]

Awww that brings back the memories..programming the ZX spectrum in BASIC (Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) no less..

I remember me an my brother sitting one day copying out 2 pages worth from "Your Sinclair" magazine to make a dot fly across the screen.

You must have been far better at it cliff

[Toddyuk]

Aint that a basic program to write tho random nos ? even i could do that ..

Dont see the point tho ?

[poopoo77]

noone gona answer him then ? coz me also would love a bingo program. be just ideal at xmas for family etc... so anyone know where you can get a bingo program from ? must be very simple surly ?

[poopoo77]

Aint that a basic program to write tho random nos ? even i could do that ..

Dont see the point tho ?

to play bingo durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[ady]

to play bingo durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I think you are all missing the post guy's.

This is a recient machine thats also found on modern pub skill machines, along with DOND etc.....

Some guy in a dickie bow has 90 balls (yes 90) bumping around and you have a card...you accept or don't accept a ball and theres hidden bonuses in there in the taste of if 'star' balls that give extra time etc to achieve a £60 JP....

We arn't talking a 1-90 simple BBC Program............just a simple Windows One lol :tongue:

[Toddyuk]

to play bingo durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Alright chill ffs lol

[Taylor525]

I think you are all missing the post guy's.

This is a recient machine thats also found on modern pub skill machines, along with DOND etc.....

Some guy in a dickie bow has 90 balls (yes 90) bumping around and you have a card...you accept or don't accept a ball and theres hidden bonuses in there in the taste of if 'star' balls that give extra time etc to achieve a £60 JP....

We arn't talking a 1-90 simple BBC Program............just a simple Windows One lol :tongue:

hehe, I got that Bingo game on my phone:D

(hint hint...u can get it on ya phone as a game;))

[jamesb99_1999]

over the weekend I am going to code and wonderful Bingo game for you all!!! And if Adyb can send me some photos of some grannies and scan in some sweaty lavendar socks I can make it very realistic..

Will be released Tuesday... Can't wait to hear from MECCA's solicitors on this one

[Taylor525]

As long as you don't get in to shit with it...

you don't want to get into that shit agen really...

[ady]

over the weekend I am going to code and wonderful Bingo game for you all!!! And if Adyb can send me some photos of some grannies and scan in some sweaty lavendar socks I can make it very realistic..

Will be released Tuesday... Can't wait to hear from MECCA's solicitors on this one

hahaha nice One mate......wasn't going to do that again, but just for you fella lol.

[fruitsnappa]

If it's the one i'm thinking of it's called Skill Ball Bingo(it is on the Itbox anyway). Very addictive. Never managed to get more than six quid out of it though(two lines).

[impact]

Nova have given the rights to who every one who wishes to pay for the right of use in any swp`s so yes SBB in itbox,paragons,ect

[ritdav]

hehe, I got that Bingo game on my phone:D

(hint hint...u can get it on ya phone as a game;))

from where?

[cliffc]

Awww that brings back the memories..programming the ZX spectrum in BASIC (Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) no less..

I remember me an my brother sitting one day copying out 2 pages worth from "Your Sinclair" magazine to make a dot fly across the screen.

You must have been far better at it cliff

Hi

I was not bad at it i must admit i did have a set of machine Code tools that helped with some routines, and some other stuff like that.But the main code was BASIC, the bits the selected the numbers in a random order and did the on screen display of the numbers called was basic, the bit that displayed the large number called was one of the M/C routines.

Cliff C

[dtrmad2004]

If it's the one i'm thinking of it's called Skill Ball Bingo(it is on the Itbox anyway). Very addictive. Never managed to get more than six quid out of it though(two lines).

You know they run off a pc i've worked on them before I was going to see if i could copy all the system to a usb memory stick for "experimenting" with at home but never got round to it, dont work there anymore anyway. Bastards

Anyway AFAIK if the system has been left for any period of time it has to "phone home" to Nova for updates or it simply wont function

Andy

[cliffc]

Aint that a basic program to write tho random nos ? even i could do that ..

Dont see the point tho ?

Hi

The random number bit was easy the hard bit is getting 90 of them from 1 to 90 but only generated once, as the RNG can be set to produce a random nos only between 1 to 90 but thats what it does produces nos between 1 and 90, the thing could produce some thing like this 1 1 20 90 90 33 44 33 55 ect so you have to make the code pick only one of each number in a random order that is the trickyer part.

Cliff C

[Guitar]

Hi

The random number bit was easy the hard bit is getting 90 of them from 1 to 90 but only generated once, as the RNG can be set to produce a random nos only between 1 to 90 but thats what it does produces nos between 1 and 90, the thing could produce some thing like this 1 1 20 90 90 33 44 33 55 ect so you have to make the code pick only one of each number in a random order that is the trickyer part.

Cliff C

Create an array from 1 - 90. Then randomize number, when that number is picked it assigns it the number of the order to call them off. If a number has already been assigned a point of order then re-randomize. Once you're finished to have all 90 numbers randomize and can call them off in order. You could even have the program randomizing the numbers for next game whilst playing the first. Once the program gets to the end and has only a few numbers left to assign the computer will keep randomizing until it picks one of the few remaining unassigned numbers. This should take only a few seconds on a 1Ghz processor.

The same process can be used to make a random number generator for random fruit machines. Only randomizing from 1 - 512,000 as opposed to 1 - 90. It would be advisable to store the assigned numbers in a text file though. It could take a few minutes to randomize them the first time with that many numbers to do.