Monday, February 21, 2005
Enough tech stuff for now, lets have some fun...
If you have not played a UK fruit machine before, then pretty soon, you can be
playing one for FREE on your PC. Even if you have, its still nice to play them for free, no risk of losing your wages into the machine when you dont have to put any coins in at all!
A talented bunch of people have created emulators which can read the ROM's (the chips from REAL machines) and play them exactly the same as the real thing does.
Obviously the software cant pay out real coins, or have genuine reels, but the game play is IDENTICAL to the real machine, as it uses the REAL MACHINE ROMS!
These emulators are FREELY available, so are the roms, and they are not meant to be sold for profit, but still people keep on selling them on ebay (along with ROMS, which upsets the manufacturers.)
So put your money away, dont pay for it on ebay, especially when that money does not go to the authors of the emulators, who give the stuff away for free....
Just download it from one of the many sites out there that cater for fruit machine emulation.
On the left hand side of this blog is a link to the fruit-emu site, this is one of many sites that deals with the emulation scene, and emulators and roms can be downloaded from there.
As the site says, you will not find emulators for the most upto date machines, but plenty of popular classics are all available.
playing one for FREE on your PC. Even if you have, its still nice to play them for free, no risk of losing your wages into the machine when you dont have to put any coins in at all!
A talented bunch of people have created emulators which can read the ROM's (the chips from REAL machines) and play them exactly the same as the real thing does.
Obviously the software cant pay out real coins, or have genuine reels, but the game play is IDENTICAL to the real machine, as it uses the REAL MACHINE ROMS!
These emulators are FREELY available, so are the roms, and they are not meant to be sold for profit, but still people keep on selling them on ebay (along with ROMS, which upsets the manufacturers.)
So put your money away, dont pay for it on ebay, especially when that money does not go to the authors of the emulators, who give the stuff away for free....
Just download it from one of the many sites out there that cater for fruit machine emulation.
On the left hand side of this blog is a link to the fruit-emu site, this is one of many sites that deals with the emulation scene, and emulators and roms can be downloaded from there.
As the site says, you will not find emulators for the most upto date machines, but plenty of popular classics are all available.
# posted by fruityarcade @ 5:36 PM 
