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Hi,

The dream will come true when someone manage to emulate this game as is shown on the picture (if you can recognize it)? Aristocrat "Multi Draw Free Game". This game ROCKS!

Cheers

Hello there,

We have tried and tried to emulate the MK5 platform, but, all the clever people out there don't seem to want to bother to help much..(arcade people don't care about 'slot machines').

We have been using MAME as a base to emulate the Arm250 CPU (MK5), but it has lots of holes in the MEMC. Mostly for anyone to bother with... Arculator has excellent emulation of the ARM250 CPU, but it's not very flexible and quite hard to work with, it's mostly hard set/stuck with this whole 'Acorn computer' hardware crap. So it's hard to make the MK5 platform work.

If you really want this game emulated (we) need too get someone interested in spending the time. It's actually 90% done with MAME or even with Arculator. Both can get things booting but crashing, some games show graphics then crash.

 

First of all, thank you for speedy response and constructive feedback.

Since I have zero knowledge about emulation and hardware I can only say 'yes' I would really like to get someone interested in spending the time and also help in any way if I can. it sounds good that 90% has been done with MAME or an Arculator (dont know what an arculator is?)
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Cheers

Arculator runs the Mark 5 software with no problem at all with just a few changes & disabling the Archimedes specific stuff. The Mark 5 platform has some hardware differences ( 2khz OS timer, DRAM Emulator, Mihkon, SRAM for metering & eeprom for config ) which are not common on the Archimedes.

The real trouble is that slots are more IO based than most arcade machines, they moan & complain before you see anything interesting on the screen because of all of the persistent integrity checks.