Monday, December 30, 2019

New in the basement: 1947 Ballyhoo

One of the last of the flipperless pins!!
Fun fact: I don't think the 1000s scoring has a reset at all.  Guess they felt it mattered so little they would save the money?


I have to solve the logic behind the specials and super specials.  Since in this era they were all essentially "skilled gambling" I want to nail down the logic on the specials and super specials.

Go to ipdb and check the schematics there, what a trip!  I have never seen schematics quite like that before.
Just go in blind and see if you can describe to me the expected behaviour in regards to all the specials.  Go for it.

2 comments:

  1. On my 48 Rainbow, the thousands just fires until it gets back around to 0 instead of having a reset coil

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    1. on this machine the thousands stepper doesn't have a zero position switch, so it doesn't even get that far.

      Someone on pinside mentioned how machines (maybe like yours?) sometimes have a 10k stepper "-1" position and the reset circuit puts the 10k in -1, then continuously steps the 1k until it carries over, thus putting them both into the zero position.

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