Fruit Machine Emulation

[strumstrum]

anybody know of any or if there is anything in the pipeline, id love to have some pub fruitys on the machine..

cheers

 

[NoidZ]

Ceasar Pallace games

 

[bacteria]

I play Arcade Fruit Machine, it is a DOS game and plays fine on the GP2x DOS emulator. It is a good game.

 

[DialTone]

Sorry, I missed this topic first time around and it resurfaced when I was doing a search...

I have already made a start at trying to port some FME stuff over to GP2X (well, multiplatform in fact using SDL), but the performance prognosis doesn't appear too good

I was involved with writing the PC-based emulators, and the performance demands are pretty high. Coupled with that a limited display resolution available, and limited input available, and I'm not sure how practical it would be?

Is there really much interest for Fruit Machine emulation on GP2X anyway?

Tony

 

[pete_w]

Biggest problem i would have thought would be being able to make out feature names etc. on the small screen. Lo-Tech type machines would probably look ok though.

As for performance Mpu34 used to run pretty ok on a PII 266 or better so its likely to be quite a bit slower on a GP2x especially as it doesn't have an fpu etc. Although with the smaller screen maybe the graphics overhead will be significantly reduced ?

 

[sparr]

My guess is that they don't really want emulation of actual fruit machine roms, just clones. To which my response is, just go play the various NES/SNES/otherconsole versions on emulators of those platforms.

 

[pete_w]

There were some fun fruities on the Amiga if i remember....

 

[DialTone]

Biggest problem i would have thought would be being able to make out feature names etc. on the small screen. Lo-Tech type machines would probably look ok though.

As for performance Mpu34 used to run pretty ok on a PII 266 or better so its likely to be quite a bit slower on a GP2x especially as it doesn't have an fpu etc. Although with the smaller screen maybe the graphics overhead will be significantly reduced ?

'Tis true - the only possible "workaround" to this that I could think of was to split the displayed part of the machine into several "chunks" - so that you could view either the top, bottom or both (using a hot-key toggle), but retaining the buttons on an overlaid panel. Still not sure if it would look too hot though :S

Performance wise, I've been test-compiling on an old laptop for speed reference indication - It's an old P2-400 with around 380MB of ram, running Fedora Core 5 Linux. Runs pretty slowly I have to say, although it's early days codewise, so perhaps there would be a way to improve the speed, say by inlining functions or switching to asm-based CPU cores (something I'm a little reluctant to do due to the fact that the code is C++, so there'd be a fair amount of work involved in doing that, and the asm core would then be target platform specific). I don't imagine that the lack of FPU would be an issue for most fruity-type techs as they use fairly standard processors (Motorola 68xx, 68xxx, Z80 etc) which don't have FPUs themselves.

Ho-hum! As others have remarked, I think it's more the ability to play fruities than emulated fruities, in which case the games suggested fit the bill pretty well!

Tony

 

[bacteria]

There were some fun fruities on the Amiga if i remember....

What are the best fruit machine games? I love Psycho Pinball on the Megadrive personally. What other ones have proper ball physics and are colourful and fun to play?

 

[mattc]

There were some fun fruities on the Amiga if i remember....

What are the best fruit machine games? I love Psycho Pinball on the Megadrive personally. What other ones have proper ball physics and are colourful and fun to play?

:blink: Fruit machines don't have balls.

Fruit machines are the gambling machines found in pubs.

I do prefer pinball machines but this a bit off topic.

Hope that clears up any confusion.

MattC

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

Actually a fruit machine is a good idea for one of my Fenix projects. If I can't find anything better I might look into writing one after I have finished GP Berzerk! My boyfriend did mention it would be nice to have an updated version of Defender for the GP2X, but I think a Fruit Machine would be a nice quick project in between the larger games.

 

[Javacat]

A fruit machine game would be pritty cool. I could sit in pubs playing fruit machines for free, whilst all my friends are at the other side of the pub wasting there money on the real thing... :huh:

My boyfriend did mention it would be nice to have an updated version of Defender for the GP2X

I said that to you aswell!!

Well I told you to port your PC version of it...

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

A fruit machine game would be pritty cool. I could sit in pubs playing fruit machines for free, whilst all my friends are at the other side of the pub wasting there money on the real thing... :huh:

My boyfriend did mention it would be nice to have an updated version of Defender for the GP2X

I said that to you as well!!

Well I told you to port your PC version of it...

Actually I have me own Idea for an interesting spin to the game, so I don't want to do a clone. I want to make it a little more like Datastorm on the Amiga!

 

[critical]

I want to make it a little more like Datastorm on the Amiga!

The is no better game to draw inspiration from.

 

[bacteria]

There were some fun fruities on the Amiga if i remember....

What are the best fruit machine games? I love Psycho Pinball on the Megadrive personally. What other ones have proper ball physics and are colourful and fun to play?

:blink: Fruit machines don't have balls.

Fruit machines are the gambling machines found in pubs.

I do prefer pinball machines but this a bit off topic.

Hope that clears up any confusion.

MattC

No idea why I said this, I must have had other things on my mind! Psycho Pinball is (obviously) pinball (why did I post this?) - it is a very good one though! As stated before, Arcade Fruit Machine (DOS) is very good. Oops! :blink: Doh!

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

Hey Bacteria, May I ask where you got the name from? Was it inspired by a fantastic music demo on the ole' Amiga A500?

 

[bacteria]

Hey Bacteria, May I ask where you got the name from? Was it inspired by a fantastic music demo on the ole' Amiga A500?

Thanks for asking.

Actually, I was watching the American comedy program "Ellen" some time ago (my wife loved watching this program, so I got "roped in"). On one episode, the guy (can't remember his name) who did the coffee in the shop, was having a conversation with Ellen, and were talking about the internet - he said he had a cool log-in name which no-one could guess, then promptly told Ellen it was "Bacteria". It stuck! I tend to use obscure passwords for different things, which are varied and unguessible, so I guess this is why this one became by handle!

I didn't fancy using a picture of bacteria for my avatar, I just liked the name; so found a nice pic on the internet which caught my eye, and used that one. Because of the mod projects I have been doing over the last months, the "Blue Peter" reference kept coming up (aka a nickname), so I incorporated this into my avator; seemed fitting after all. Took me a couple of hours to change the avator logo to the current one, lots of detail in only 80x80 pixels, but I do like the result!