and modem LCD's are bright enough (the main complaint at the time about them). In any case, LCD's are cheap and ubiquitous enough. i'm not sure if the original CRT would work with the nucore setup without modification. so maybe it was CRT.īasically it had the original computer and no sync adapter so i'm inclined to say it had CRT.but it was plug and play.so i'm also inclined to say LCD already. So it may have been converted to LCD.but retained the original CRT bracket (how the fluorescent light attached to the inside cabinet) which it did have. I didn't have any issues installing the computer and it worked right out the gate with the display in the customer's machine, so i'm inclined to say it was CRT already.but i would have had to build a circuit to fix the sync for the CRT.but i wouldn't have. It's been about 3 years since i've serviced that machine and it's at a location about a 3 hour drive away. i recall having to make a circuit to fix it to work on the original computer. We ended up swapping out the CRT for an LCD due to poor display from the CRT.but had an issue with something weird going on with the video. We do have our own RFM and I do recall having an issue with the one that we own. I can believe it had the original monitor cause the computer was quite the squeeze to install (i slid it in on top of the CRT brackets) but at the same time, there was no messing around. my mind is terrible, it may as well have been 10 years ago. Sorry, I don't 100% recall on that particular machine. case and spaces matter) wait for the prompt to return after each command. Type the following commands (without quotes. log into the prompt with your username and password you set earlier. So once the computer boots to the command prompt screen. you will now need to patch the linux install to be able to connect and get the files from the. The linux repository for old versions changed locations and as such, the old installation included points itself to the wrong place. (you will need it to access root in a bit)Īfter installation, the machine will reboot and then kind of crash to a command prompt and stop doing anything. Set the username and password to something you will remember. then install the software on your new computer. So what you want to do is download the pinbox software from your favorite site and burn the image to a CD (or usb if you like). I initially used a similar spec'ed single core with a passmark of 1254 and experienced some stuttering and slowdows in the video. I used an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600 that had a passmark score of 1484. (I used a 500gb because that what was laying around) (as you should be able to)Ī motherboard with a parallel printer portĪ dual core CPU with a passmark score of at least ~1400 for smooth frame rates I was just happy to get the software running and buddy's machine woking again in the first place. The company who made nucore software have placed free updates for the software on their site, but i'm not sure if the updates work with this setup. While I don't condone downloading pirated software, the showdown between the 2 companies has made it almost impossible to get this setup legit unless you buy someone's kit. So get ready to find yourself a computer! I have managed to fix the issue digging for the better part of 3 daysĪnd am posting a guide here so others may fix their machines. So, in a nutshell, a cracked older version of the software called pinbox is downloadable through the usual torrenting channels, but does not install properly because of how the linux installation is performed. unavailable for the foreseeable future *SHAKES FIST AT PP* I found some threads about replacing the computer with new hardware called nucore but due to licencing and agreement issues between nucore and the current holders of williams IP. So I scoured ebay looking for a motherboard with no luck. It was likely a fried CPU and despite it using a socket 7, the cpu used in the motherboard is of the custom variety and not compatible with a standard pentium cpu. sadly, nothing I did could resurrect the computer. I recently had a client bring in a pinball 2000 machine into the shop with a dead computer.
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