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benjojo posted 23 Oct 2023 20:45 +0000

Today I discovered first hand that modern pinball machines can just straight up crash. By crashing one

Why does the pinball machine run android????

SamantazFox@infosec... replied 23 Oct 2023 20:55 +0000
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@benjojo I guess because it's the most low effort platform for embedded devices?

kouett@soc.kouett.ne.. replied 23 Oct 2023 20:55 +0000
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@benjojo because no one knows how to operate electromechanical relays anymore

mattbee@mastodon.org.. replied 23 Oct 2023 20:59 +0000
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@benjojo oh that's nasty! A physical pin that uses Android to drive the display / sound etc.? That must surely also do things like GC pauses when it's meant to be reacting to a shot or something?

benjojo replied 24 Oct 2023 08:51 +0000
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@mattbee The machine was responsive, but I the video screen or w/e at the top ( I don't know what the terminology is for pinball machines ) was clearly something Android-ish

lorddimwit@mastodon... replied 23 Oct 2023 21:50 +0000
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@benjojo

They don’t crash, they tilt. ;)

alice@uwu.social replied 24 Oct 2023 00:01 +0000
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@benjojo haha what

tema@mastodonapp.uk replied 24 Oct 2023 06:07 +0000
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@benjojo One of McRae’s rejects?

benjojo replied 24 Oct 2023 08:53 +0000
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@tema I totally now understand why the pinball nuts are now only seemingly interested in the older ones :P

This one even had QR code scanning support (For the pub's award system)

Maybe it's a conspiracy to kill off people who are hogging the machine for too long :P

vxo@digipres.club replied 27 Oct 2023 21:01 +0000
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@benjojo that's hilarious! I only knew of one older Williams pin that could crash (really just unexpectedly reboot) due to an unhandled broken switch compensation. I forget which game it was. Normally the game will detect a bad target switch and compensate by stacking its award on another working one nearby, but on this one someone forgot to specify the target for compensation and it caused the whole game to reboot!