As you might have heard, I sent an EPROM set of an Aristocrat MK5 game over to AGEMAME HQ for archival.
Does anyone have experience with coding drivers out of the blue in MAME? Just about everything about the MK5 hardware is in the service manual, right down to voltages used (see section 11). All of the docs can be found over here.
What I'm mainly trying to start is to see some code running in MAME, but I don't have the know-how on doing so.
The reason for using MAME is that it fits more being video based (as with the IGT PE+ poker/slot games in there), than it would in a fruit machine emulator.
Basically, it's a 12MHz ARM250 which apparently can run the game code, video and sound all in the one chip (and is apparently the same chip used in the Acorn Archimedes). I haven't had much response from the MAME team besides a nice way of saying 'code yaself!' at one time... Unfortunately, this 'easy to emulate' system will be on hold forever until someone in the know can write even the start of a driver, as I haven't a clue. I can send the set if anyone's interested, just do not put it up for download here as we all know what happened with the MK6 emulators!
I gathered since you guys can do the impossible and simulate mechanical reels and lights on the fruities, you can do just about anything!
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