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Nice to see all the old games still being played and collected
By: justinlloyd Date: February 6, 2017, 1:37 pm
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Just wanted to drop in and say that it's nice to see the
machines still being played.
I used to work as a software developer/designer back in the late
1980's and early 1990's of fruit machines for a couple of
companies located in South Wales.
Most of my design work was done for JPM and Ace. Did a brief bit
of work for Crystal (later bought by JPM I think?).
Started out writing the games in straight assembly language
(different languages depending on the CPU in the machine). Later
built my own fruit machine game maker for the Atari ST that let
me do all the light sequences, PAR tables, mathematics and
simulation, and feature set of nudges, and accumulators, and so
on, using a mouse and menu system instead of laboriously typing
everything in by hand into text files.
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By: andrew96 Date: February 6, 2017, 2:05 pm
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Hi and welcome! what JPM tech did you write for?
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By: DaddyAl84 Date: February 6, 2017, 2:34 pm
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Hi Justin, welcome to the forum
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By: The graham Date: February 6, 2017, 2:37 pm
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Hi Justin. Jon and ace games in the 90s to early 2000s were some
of the best games in my opinion. Which games do we have you to
thank for?
Welcome to the forum.
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By: The graham Date: February 6, 2017, 2:38 pm
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Jon=jpm... stupid spell check 🙂
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By: lineup chris Date: February 6, 2017, 2:39 pm
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Welcome Justin.
I used to live and work in Cardiff
Printing fruit machine glasses and reel bands
Mostly for JPM and Maygay.
So many an Eachway Shuffle glasses
passed through my hands😊
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By: DaddyAl84 Date: February 6, 2017, 6:11 pm
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Never knew that Chris. How interesting.
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By: lineup chris Date: February 6, 2017, 7:13 pm
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Yep. Me and fruit machines go back
a long way!
I used to be an apprentice silk screen printer.
And we printed bus advertisements. T. shirts
Fruit machine glasses and reel bands mostly for JPM
Flyers and sale boards for shops.
On Fruit machines when I first started we were printing
Eachway Nudgers, Nudge Double Up and deluxe versions
Lite a Nudge which were all SRU'S.
Eachway Shuffles and Lucky 2s by the 1000s.
We went onto Supa Stepps, Nudge Shuffle, Clickity Click
Frog it, Fruit Snappa. Kick a which were sys80s.
We did some Maygay stuff as well like Cash or Nudge, Bust out
and Link3 which were all triple m tech.
We also did clubbers and machines for the European market.
It was a great job and I got to learn all the reels as
well😊
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By: sulzerned Date: February 7, 2017, 11:45 am
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Welcome Justin to the forum thanks for the very interesting
introduction and always nice hear from old programmers .
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