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  1. As electronic coin rejectors got more and more popular, plenty of old games, vending machines and other coin operated things could've benefited from the fact that instead of exact change, the user could have paid with whatever coins they had on them provided they had enough to pay for the game/service.

    The old machines generally had just a switch to add a credit once a coin passed a mechanical rejector. So how could those things be updated to understand a multi-channel rejector that tried to communicate the coin values to the host machine?

    Enter the credit boards. They ran microcontrollers and had removable ROM chips on the board. The board listened to the rejector and once it calculated enough money had been paid, it triggered one pulse to the switch that used to be connected to the old mechanical coin rejector, thus making it possible to pay for example with 5x 20cnt for 1€ product. The pricing was on the ROM chip and changes just needed a new ROM.

    #history #retrotech #oldtech #coinop

  2. Fly Drive, Tim Hunkin (2008), The Under The Pier Show, Southwold pier, England
    I didn’t ‘enter the mind of a fly’, but did ‘whack a banker’ instead.

    ‘A mad arcade of home-made machines & simulator rides on Southwold pier, Suffolk, UK’ underthepier.com/10_current_ma

    #KaleidoSaturday #kaleidoscope #symmetry #tiling #arcade #coinop #game #Photography

  3. Do you like retro Williams arcade games like Defender, Stargate, Joust, and... Sinistar? Then you may like this long but detailed documentary of reconstructing the Sinistar source while learning about Williams history youtube.com/watch?v=lCuoUSDBVac
    #sinistar #williams #coinop #arcade

  4. Do you like retro Williams arcade games like Defender, Stargate, Joust, and... Sinistar? Then you may like this long but detailed documentary of reconstructing the Sinistar source while learning about Williams history youtube.com/watch?v=lCuoUSDBVac
    #sinistar #williams #coinop #arcade

  5. Do you like retro Williams arcade games like Defender, Stargate, Joust, and... Sinistar? Then you may like this long but detailed documentary of reconstructing the Sinistar source while learning about Williams history youtube.com/watch?v=lCuoUSDBVac
    #sinistar #williams #coinop #arcade

  6. Do you like retro Williams arcade games like Defender, Stargate, Joust, and... Sinistar? Then you may like this long but detailed documentary of reconstructing the Sinistar source while learning about Williams history youtube.com/watch?v=lCuoUSDBVac
    #sinistar #williams #coinop #arcade

  7. Do you like retro Williams arcade games like Defender, Stargate, Joust, and... Sinistar? Then you may like this long but detailed documentary of reconstructing the Sinistar source while learning about Williams history youtube.com/watch?v=lCuoUSDBVac
    #sinistar #williams #coinop #arcade

  8. the combination of the headline and the photograph are just sending me.
    damn girl, take care of yourself.
    "Miss E. C. Chalder Leaves Mills Novelty Company to be Married"
    #retroarcade #coinop #1920s #millsnovelty

  9. Man, I wish
    I could go back in time and tell my younger self it is possible to play the exact roms as in the arcades on my #Amiga500. Not inferior ports and downsized games due to diskspace, but pixel perfect original #Neogeo games like #DoubleDragon....it would have blown my mind and I would not have believed me. #Retro #emulation #arcade #coinop Next buy: a 9 pin joystick with at least 2 separate action buttons, more also okay.

  10. @Gamrok "Chuck Rock 2: Son of Chuck" is the one I played the most on the #amiga but "Joe & Mac" (the #coinop) runs a close second.

  11. @vcfederation has just posted my video from #VCFEast2024 showing the process of #coinop #gamedev at Atari in the early 1980s, using a #PDP11 as a cross-assembler. #retrogaming youtube.com/watch?v=W5JIm8z4xt

  12. @vcfederation has just posted my video from #VCFEast2024 showing the process of #coinop #gamedev at Atari in the early 1980s, using a #PDP11 as a cross-assembler. #retrogaming youtube.com/watch?v=W5JIm8z4xt

  13. @vcfederation has just posted my video from #VCFEast2024 showing the process of #coinop #gamedev at Atari in the early 1980s, using a #PDP11 as a cross-assembler. #retrogaming youtube.com/watch?v=W5JIm8z4xt

  14. @vcfederation has just posted my video from #VCFEast2024 showing the process of #coinop #gamedev at Atari in the early 1980s, using a #PDP11 as a cross-assembler. #retrogaming youtube.com/watch?v=W5JIm8z4xt