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Astra : no emulated games?
Started by ruler, Sep 25 2006 07:15 PM
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#21
Posted 26 September 2006 - 09:01 AM
i remember that infact i was even looking for it lastnight on here but found nothing. after a while they did a conversion from £10 to £15 jackpot which i think was better but as i said in the 1st post in this topic, Astra games on this site are almost imposible to find and why i do not know
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#22
Posted 26 September 2006 - 11:03 AM
You won't find any Astra machines emulated on this or any site, because the hardware they used for stuff like Big 10, Stampede, Double Cash and so on (namely a custom Heber board with integrated IO3) has not been emulated.
I don't believe that anyone is looking to emulate it in the near future, for reasons such as that Astra are still using this hardware (although they have recently started using Pluto 6), it may be too difficult to emulate successfully, and there are only a handful of games that can be emulated in any case. People would rather see Scorpion 4 emulated because there were loads of games done on that tech over many years that people would be excited about playing again.
On Astra you have a few lo-tech games that get boring after an hour or so.
In short then, you have a long wait on your hands at best I'm afraid.
I don't believe that anyone is looking to emulate it in the near future, for reasons such as that Astra are still using this hardware (although they have recently started using Pluto 6), it may be too difficult to emulate successfully, and there are only a handful of games that can be emulated in any case. People would rather see Scorpion 4 emulated because there were loads of games done on that tech over many years that people would be excited about playing again.
On Astra you have a few lo-tech games that get boring after an hour or so.
In short then, you have a long wait on your hands at best I'm afraid.
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