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[Mr House]

Just tidying all my rubbish up on my hard drive and I found the file that I've attached that I figured maybe of interest to some of the new people to FME to give a snapshot of what the scene was like 8 years ago.

This document was one that I was creating that barely got off the ground when I used to own and run Fruit Forums before I gave it away to Alex.

This is a great view of the fantastic achievment that was Fruit.Exe before politics and shit ruined everything.

Enjoy this small, but enlightening document that I have just posted here before I deleted it.

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•  Year 1.zip   518.21KB   144 downloads

[Matty.N]

Thanks House

Will make interesting reading as ive never truely been able to find out what FME was like at the begining

P.s Love the name/Avatar

[NickYerPesos]

So where are we now? There's a £25 jackpot just been introduced and a potential stake of 50p per
game (although I refuse to believe that there's an operator in the land who would even consider charging
someone 50p to watch 3 reels spin for a second). People do not want higher jackpots (they certainly don't
want higher stakes); they want value for money and entertainment along with the chance to win a few
quid. Of course, the one group of people who will play whatever the stake, jackpot or %age are the
addicts, from whom fruit machines, now more than ever, make the vast majority of their money from.

Wow, looking at it like that (from back then).. its makes so much sense.. and is infact completely Laughable 50p stakes for 1 second spins....

Thanks Mr House, its a really good read

[Deano]

Will view it tomorrow to give an honest opinion,pissed atm lol:bigeyes04:

[Bencrest]

What is the machine on the bottom of page 4? The £1000 casino one, ???? grand ???? This is the machine I have been looking for but didnt know if it was emulated or not. I thought it was a barcrest machine but could not remember the name. I will look again now i seen part of the name but if anyone else knows what its called could you please let me know.

Honestly don't know. The name looks like 'Casino GRAND' to me but could be wrong. Graphically it looks more like a rebuild, so could be by anyone.

[baz]

What is the machine on the bottom of page 4? The £1000 casino one, ???? grand ???? This is the machine I have been looking for but didnt know if it was emulated or not.

Edit - Ben beat me to it

[levartemit186]

Great to see this early stuff, thanks Mr. House (want some Vicadin?) I am thinking about doing an FME wiki entry cos it sure needs one. May I use any and all info from this document?

[Mr House]

Great to see this early stuff, thanks Mr. House (want some Vicadin?) I am thinking about doing an FME wiki entry cos it sure needs one. May I use any and all info from this document?

Yes you can.

One thing I would suggest is respect the name changes that people have done and refer to them by their current FME known names. EG, me = Mr House. Trouty = Geddy and so on.

[£6 In Tokens]

Interesting reading, sure is a lot of people responsible for getting FME to this point, a lot of people to thank.

Also it may be a good idea for members to troll through old posts on FF as I did when I first joined....Lots to read..... All very interesting.

Funny to see Pook's comment (just to pick 1 at random), saying that he tried a DX and failed.....How things have changed on that front.

Nice to see that most of those are still posting on one forum and another, even Wizard, which is very rare I know.

Just a feeling I have from reading that the early days must have been brilliant, loads of roms, loads of artwork, and the majority just concentrating on furthering FME (wish I found out about it in 2002).

Just hope that this is not the end of FME, because surely in a year or 2, everything possible will be emulated and DX'ed.

With Wizard unlikely to return (hope I'm very very wrong there), this scene needs someone to save it (looking ahead long term) and create an emulator that is easy to use, something similar to MFME.

[Geddy]

On a side Note Mr House you blast billiards score beating whore.... who sang that MPU34 song from your site? Sounds like a Yorkshireman..... or Lancs, bloody Southerners all sound the same to me hehe.

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•  MPU34.zip   1.24MB   9 downloads

[vectra666]

a very interesting read the one year on bit £25jp and 50p a spin that,ll never happen ahh the days before dond,s and £500jp,s even partytime 3player was still in nappies in 2001-2 lol

[cashbox1]

im sure i have a back up of the Hovel on one of my drives somewhere, i must dig it out and up it - makes for some interesting reading indeed.... oh how things have changed over the years

[Stiffy1231]

Wow - There is a quote from me in there.

Historical Document !

[gemini17]

Very interesting read indeed and soo right.
Yet if anything,things are now worse than ever in the arcade industry as the 50p spin is now £1 or even £2 a spin.!!
A £1 a spin for £500jackpot games is steep enough but for £70jackpots!!!
As a reformed addict who certainly kept many an arcade in profit(late 80s/early 90s).I have benefited so much from the various emus and the many wonderfull emulations we have.
I have a control now over slots I once never had.
Slot machines dominated a chapter in my life that will always haunt a part of me.
I play and enjoy all forms of gambling but only play for fun now,

Jay