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Most people have realised the fruitforums is down - it looks like the domain might have expired and some scrote has nicked in there and registered it, or something along those lines...

It looks like the fruitforums domain is owned by a Mr Daewoo Matiz

The whois info from the domain is as follows.

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Domain Name: FRUITFORUMS.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
Referral URL: Tucows Domain Name Help Center
Name Server: NS1.FS-INTERNET.COM
Name Server: NS2.FS-INTERNET.COM
Name Server: NS3.FS-INTERNET.COM
Status: clientHold
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 13-jul-2008
Creation Date: 11-jul-2002
Expiration Date: 11-jul-2009

>>> Last update of whois database: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:42:56 EDT <<<

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and
Registrars.Registrant:
The Charcoal Tandoori
23 Leigh Street
London, WC1H 9EW
GB

Domain name: FRUITFORUMS.COM

Administrative Contact:
Matiz, Daewoo nightopian@yahoo.com
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GB
+44.087107527771
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Matiz, Daewoo nightopian@yahoo.com
23 Leigh Street
London, WC1H 9EW
GB
+44.087107527771


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Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 12-Jan-2008.
Record expires on 11-Jul-2008.
Record created on 11-Jul-2002.

Registrar Domain Name Help Center:
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Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.FS-INTERNET.COM
NS3.FS-INTERNET.COM
NS2.FS-INTERNET.COM


Domain status: clientHold
clientTransferProhibited
clientUpdateProhibited

So unless this is always been the case - something is amiss. Given the expiry dates and the recent changes - this might be the problem.

The First AGEMAME Layout created using the AGEMAME Layout Editor, and the first user created/submitted layout to the AGEMAME project. A landmark in FME :laugh:

Download instructions within thread

There are a couple of lamps that I don't know what purpose they serve (lamps 6/7/14/15). If anyone knows what these do, please feel free to either fix the layout or drop me a pm with details and I'll fix it.

Having never really played or remember sidewinder - its difficult to guess where they might be used, or even if all the current lamps are correct :S

To make this work you'll need the following.
1. Latest version of agemame (http://www.mameworld...emame/releases/)
2. Sidewinder roms - available from the repro)
3. The artwork zip (attached to this post).


Quick agemame tutorial for beginners -

• download and unzip to a directory making sure to preserve folders
• open a dos window, change to the agemame directory and type: age -createconfig.
• Copy the rom zip to the roms directory
• Copy the layout zip to the artwork directory.
• start up agemame by either clicking on age.exe and choose sidewndr from the menu.
• When it loads, press the tab key to bring up the options.
• Going to video options lets you change to use the layout or the original presentation i.e. just the screen. The default is just the screen, so pick "AWP Simulated Layout" to see the graphics.

If you want to try and make sense of the layout in ALE (AGEMAME Layout Editor), you'll need to unzip this somewhere and then just load in the lay file. You'll also need the very latest version (0.8.2a) only available via the autoupdate currently. You can download ALE from here

You can change the keys with the input option to whatever you like generally, though attached to this post is my AGEMAME config file for Sidewinder. The keys by default are a little painful, so you can either change them yourself (from the TAB key menu) or you can unzip and copy my CFG file to the cfg directory, which will set the keys as follows:

Attached is my cfg file which contains my key mappings - copy this into the agemame cfg file and overwrite the existing one, then start Agemame and the keys are set as follows:

• Start = space
• Hold1 = 1
• Hold2 = 2
• Hold3 = 3
• Hold4 = 4
• Coin = 0
• Gamble = G
• Collect = C
• Cancel = X
• Stop Nudge/Nudge Up/down = N
• Refill = R
• Accountancy = F11
• Test Program = F12

Thanks to
- Tibby for the backdrop graphic
- Elcondor for AGEMAME and his help making sense of things whilst I've been developing ALE
- Whoever was responsible for implementing Sidewinder in MAME.

Been posting about this for a while over at fruitforums, but thought I'd drop the news here to catch all those who don't check there.

I've been working on an open source layout editor for use with AGEMAME. Currently, its not a simple task to build a layout for AGEMAME, so I decided to try and help the project by creating a layout edtior to simplify the task.

You can find details of this here
AGEMAME Layout Editor
including the binary release done just today of a very alpha version of the editor.

It's still early days though, and I expect there to be some tough times ahead...