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ChadTower:
I would be very appreciative if you could get that article and maybe send it to me, or post the contents here.
Ixliam:
It's not visual pinmame, he reverse engineered the AS2518 MPU, then wrote a custom program for it. This program is on sourceforge and other links below.
Here is his thesis wrote on it. There is a PDF file with more info that the article along with pictures.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?bgsu1120167127
Here is the software - Pinball Machine Reverse Engineering Kit.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmrek
Personally, I'm with you on the not having a backboard being lame. But if its all you have to work with, it might be an idea. It also might be possible to build a PC for testing that you could hook up alligator clips to test with. He took it to the "Pinball at the Zoo" in Kalamazoo, MI in April 2005, and the PC collected info as people played it to a MYSQL database, and he used that data in his thesis as well.
BTW, I'm not a subscriber either - I got a free copy, just so happened that the month that showed up was with a pinball machine on the cover.. must have been fate.
ChadTower:
Yeep... heavy reading, and I usually enjoy heavy reading.
Is it possible to get the article? I'd like to read that too.
Ixliam:
I'll see if I can't scan it someway or take hi-res pics of the pages.
ChadTower:
Photocopies would work. I'm simple. :)
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