Technology Connections: Tilting, taking turns, and winning free games: the many tricks inside old pinball machines

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• nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  technology connections is a gem

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• massive_bereavement@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If anyone's curious, modern "virtual" pinballs, which are just a computer under a large screen inside a pinball frame, replicate this by using an accelerometer (like the one in our phones).

  The pinball emulation software is fed tilt metrics, and usually that software decides when to call it fault.

  And if anyone is really curious you can read in detail here: http://mjrnet.org/pinscape/BuildGuideV2/BuildGuide.php?sid=tilt

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• Xain52@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s pretty cool i had no idea there were multiple players on pinball machines

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• HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had a friend who was such a master of how much he could abuse the machines.

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• RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That era of physical technology is just so very cool. I like modern stuff, but man hope they made all it work was so neat!

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