It seems that Julian and I have had a brief resurgeance of interest in one of our projects we did for ‘Everyday With Practical Electronics’ back in 1994.
The ‘EPE’ Fruit Machine was very popular at the time and Julian and I enjoyed writing software for all the ‘features’ the machine had, as well as designing the look and feel of it as well.
The machine accepted only 5p coins (as it was the smallest coin, there was no need for a ‘reject’ coin machanism), and had a jackpot of £1, which was paid out using a coin stack and slider arrangement.
The software was available only from the authors (us), in the form of a pre-programmed PIC Microcontroller chip.
However, we have recently given away the software code for others to use and play with!
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