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Ond:
Its Friday! yeah maybe not where you are, but it is here. Along with re-doing the connections and general wiring to the Pinscape KL25Z board I've been motivated to clean up and improve a few other things as well. When I started this project I knew very little about virtual pinball and building virtual pinball machines. Having a largely playable machine has some advantages. In my case I see all the things that bug me or just general opportunities for improvement. Take the back-box for instance. My original design was based on 'The Web' back-glass graphics. The single back-glass 4:3 monitor was to combine the graphics and DMD on the one screen. I didn't really think about all the other cool tables I could play, or the amazing artwork on some of the back-glasses for these tables. I found myself constantly modifying back-glass artwork to fit my design.

One day i had a dim light bulb moment that went something like this - "If I added a third monitor for a DMD display and rebuilt my backbox so that I use ALL of that 4:3 monitor display for just artwork I won't have to butcher back-glass files any more!" For a supposedly clever dude I can be very slow on the uptake sometimes.

Like many new to Vpins, I added all kinds of tables to my machine. Some of the newer fantasy tables (tables that are not replicating real pinball machines) impressed me at first with their intricate complex gameplay, graphics and sounds. After some time I removed a lot of these though. I now favor older tables or replica tables that are really well designed. The arcade building journey seems to always ultimately become a purists exercise. I'm fine with that. Any vpin builders have their favourite tables? Tell me about them and why you like them.

Here's some pics of back-glass artwork on my vpin using a 3-monitor setup allowing the complete artwork:

I'll have to build a new back-box with fittings for the two monitors as well as speakers etc. I'll post that when I get to it.

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