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[ady]

kaitland welcome to Fruit-Emu.

Sorry video machines are not possible at this time, but the good news is there are projects in the pipeline.

It may be better if you go into search forums (on the left of the homepage) and type MAGE.....

Secondly Fruit-Forums has a MAGE forum too (Link on right of homepage) dedicated to the subject.....But come back here too

[PJ]

No it's not on the site, but it does have a name - Sidewinder.


In return, can you recall the name of a similar machine which had five sets of reels on the screen at 10p per spin of all sets?...

[ady]

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[guddler]

Sorry for dragging up old threads!! Am searching for ANY useful info whatsoever, so i'm trying real hard (no pun intended)...

Adydb: you say there are projects in the pipeline... Are you able to put me in touch with anone working on these projects please? Pretty please with knobs on??? (no, seriously!!)

You see, a mate of mine owns a couple of these. By a couple i mean a Sidewinder and it's lesser spotted brother, Spellbound!! It's perfectly possible he's posted here himself, i haven't looked.

Anyways, i have the PCBs on my bench right now trying to breath some life into them. No video whatsoever. Known good 5101's, good Z80's, good clock signal, board held in reset. However, that's pretty much where the goodness ends. ALL the chip numbers are either scrubbed off or they are custom numbers which to anyone but someone that worked for ACE (and has a 20 year memory!!) are going to be as good as useless...

I'm assuming if people are working on the project then they could help me and vice versa! Aside from the fact that there's 8 roms and therefore, being Z80 based the roms area is going to be 0-3FFF, i know nothing about the memory map. That would be a help. I'm assuming there's going to be some more memory somewhere other than the 2 x 5101s?

Damn if someone has some documentation then that would be fantastic, but if i could just work out what chips some of these custom chip numbers represent then i'd be able to fix it i should think.

Many thanks for any help anyone can give...

Martin.
PS: Can't the program / video side of these at least be run in mame? I appreciate the I/O won't be able to drive any lamps, but the program would run wouldn't it?

[CanonMan]

No it's not on the site, but it does have a name - Sidewinder.


In return, can you recall the name of a similar machine which had five sets of reels on the screen at 10p per spin of all sets?...

That was Barcrest's Take Five. Crap machine, no fun at all to play.

Also good for burning the image of the reels on to the screen. I remember finding a pile of about ten faulty monitors with Take Five screen burn at the back of an arcade in Rhyl once....

No idea of the technology used, but far too old to be Video MPU4.

[CanonMan]

PS: Can't the program / video side of these at least be run in mame? I appreciate the I/O won't be able to drive any lamps, but the program would run wouldn't it?

Someone did manage to write a preliminary MAME driver for Sidewinder a while back. Can't remember who it was, but there must be someone on here who can remember.

Greetings to a fellow UKVACer, by the way

[guddler]

Greetings! (Not that i actually know who anyone is on here )

Anyways, it was probaby Lee Taylor AFAIK. We've been in touch (as in Baz has dropped him a mail), hopefully he'll get back to us!

If not, i'll have a crack myself...

Actually, i just re-read my post and it seemed a little over enthusiastic Sorry 'bout that. Just that i've just made a major step forward on a board (vid game) that i've spent the last 6 weeks or so working on!!! ALL the chip select circuitry had one up in smoke. What's the chances of that eh?

Anyways, laters.

Edit: Feels weird being a "junior member" somewhere again Can't beleive it was really Oct 2003 i was working on the system 80 stuff...

Martin.