Thank you for watching Nothingbutice!

We've got to outsmart the AI you know, haha

Very cool! We had a Jack in the box in awhile back, what a fun game!

Yeah I much prefer the EM's

Yup that would work perfect!

Yup, it ain't the same. Half the fun is it figuring everything out :)

That's a great idea, thanks!

Thank you for watching Burt!

Thank you Anthony

There's a camera tripod in front of me, I can't shake anything too much :)

you'd think people would know you'll hear dat

They're just painted on wood, LOL

Here we go!

Thank you for watching Michael! Now they're like $1.50 to play or something like that!

I'm hoping down the road somebody will appreciate that if the machines aren't around or playable anymore, somebody took the time to record some of them so people can watch videos of what they used to look like :) Thanks for watching as always Brendan!

Thank you Ringo!

I usually wax them, if you use anything water based sometimes it makes the paint run off! Same thing with the apron

The oldest Pinball machine I can't really say because they evolved from the old bagatelle machines that were relased in the 1800's! by the 1930's the major companies were already in existence making tables similar to modern day pinball machines just without flippers... the flippers came along in the late 50's.... The oldest one I've had in the shop is a Flipper Parade, I think it was 59 or 60 something like that. I have a "Castle Lights" from the 1930's at my house though...

@@LyonsArcade Thank you twice!

Your average relay has about 5 switches, some a little less some more... so probably 100 on the relays, three or four on each score reel, another 5 on the coin door, probably 20 on the playfield, 40 or so on the score motor so probably between 150 and 200 depending on the machine, and there's two blades on each.

@@LyonsArcade They are truly epic. You have the patience of a Saint!

There is always a market for new things in the pinball world, some folks love any new mod or replacement that comes out so I'll bet you could sell some no problem :) Thank you for watching PlumGurly as always!

@@LyonsArcade -- Thanks. I wouldn't really want to make such things just for the sake of novelty, but more in cases of rare parts and things that cannot be replaced. For instance, the scoring motor and particularly the cam. You can often make a buttress/shim or use some sort of glue or doping agent, but if they are too far gone, that approach won't work. It would be painstaking to figure out how to convert placements, timing, and relationships into clock cycles or whatever. One might not need an MCU/CPU for that, just counters, latches, and combinational logic. It is possible to use the old strategy using newer parts, and hardwire what you need as opposed to using ROMs and programs, though directly using ROMs to store timing data for a naive design would work (like with the "infinity lights"). Put another way, the scoring motor is a ROM in a sense. If you consider the other parts when replacing a unit with something solid-state, it would be helpful to think of the switches/relays as logic gates and get an idea of their setup and hold timings. So any new stuff would need to respect the setup and hold times of the other units and need to be forgiving of variations. It is neat that all the logic of the solid-state era existed with the older stuff. If you put 2 switches in parallel, that is an OR gate. If you put switches in series, that is an AND gate. I imagine relays were wired as NAND and NOR gates. Relays and bonus units act as latches/registers. Bonus units would work as counters too. ROMs are among the most versatile of components in that you could build an entire CPU out of them. I'm planning on doing something similar as a personal project. And if you need faster, you could make a circuit to copy ROMs to SRAMs and then use just the SRAMs. For a CPU, memory can be used as microcode storage to make instructions out of simpler instructions. It can be your control unit in that your opcodes can drive address lines on memory (ROM or SRAM) and the data lines could contain your control signal matrix and decide what goes on the buses. Memory can also be your ALU. An example is to have a ROM with 20 address lines and 16 data lines. So you can use 8 address lines as Operand A, 8 for Operand B, and the other 4 as control/mode lines (thus 16 operations). Then the answers would be stored in the actual addresses, with the result data coming out of the memory Data lines. If you have too many Data lines, you could use some for flags/statuses. Like having 8 bits for the result and the other for flags/conditions (zero flag, greater than, less than, equal, not-equal, carry, overflow, etc). A table-based ALU is not the most efficient, but it is very possible. It has its uses. For instance, if you don't want to design a multiplier, you could have it to where you can do 8/8/16 multiplication. So 2 8-bit operands in and a 16-bit result. Back in the day, being able to do 1-cycle multiplication would have been considered really fast. But memory, and particularly fast memory, wasn't available back in the day. It was expensive and rather rare. If you had 70 ns memory, that means things could be done up to 14 Mhz, and with 10 ns SRAM, things can be done up to 100 Mhz. But that is the memory in a vacuum. Really, you'd need to factor in registers or combinational logic used, add all the timings together, and divide that into 1000. So if you use 10 ns SRAM and the registers used with it take 6 ns, then you'd be able to clock it up to 62 Mhz. In a case like converting an EM machine to work in a more solid-state fashion, an oscilloscope or a logic analyzer would certainly come in handy so you can measure the timings. Then once you make a replacement module, you can use the scope/analyzer to see how close your timings are on a breadboard before you have PCBs made.

that's what I'm thinking as well. .... more entertaining.

What's the difference? No one said to use 36 grit sandpaper either.

@@1pcfred well, if you never tried, you will never know... kkkkkkkk there are things difficult to write....

@@pedroveloso9707 I have used a lot of things to clean copper cladding on circuit boards. Sandpaper, steel wool, Scotchbrite, wire brushes, rubber erasers. All of it works. Copper is considered an easy metal to work with for good reason. I suppose I've just scraped crud off copper with knives too come to think about it. One of my soldering tools has this tiny edged end. Two of them really. One's angled and the other one is straight. Mostly I like the angled one the best. It has a point which gets in a lot of places. So I kind of forget about the chisel tool. But I imagine it has its uses too. I've seen those glass fiber cleaners. I never used one. They look OK to me though. If you happen to have one of them.

That is definitely not the phrase I was looking for, I remembered it as "this thingy over here"

they called it special so that they could change it, usually it could be an extra game, an extra ball, or a bunch of points, they made it like that so the operator could decide what he wanted it to be....

@@LyonsArcade I know that, but you pointed out (in an earlier video) that on this specific machine the special didn't do anything, so I was curious what become of it.

Yeah but man you're still listening to Herbie Hancock come on now man come on you can't mock me when you're listening to Thelonius Monk in 2022 come on now

Hello Lil Everette!

LEDs are for people that want to play with the lights on!