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minecraftchest1@TechConnectify
To soon. I haven't finished Wan Show yet.
hackbyte Antifa (friendica) 13HB1@TechConnectify Hrr, the YT notification came immediately.. Had to quickly lookup the fediverse post of yours. ;)
I had a "half computed" pinball machine way back in the early 90ies .... Humm. ;)
Bersl@TechConnectify yessssssssssssssss
Oceanotter 
@bersl2 @TechConnectify YEEESSSS
🔻 aetios 🇪🇺@TechConnectify First video already ruined a significant chunk of my work day! My boss thanks you
haifisch@TechConnectify makin’ getting up early worth it.
SHODAN 
@TechConnectify Is it weird I often wonder with old contraptions like these how much energy the bulbs use and if using LEDs would cut a significant amount of power draw from the unit?
bdash@SHODAN @TechConnectify Each bulb is roughly 1W and with the number of lamps in a game it does add up. Heat is often more of a concern than power draw since over time the heat causes the decorative plastics in the game to warp.
Looks like I have my answer. Thanks and very interesting, the heat aspect does make sense.
~ben@SHODAN swapping in LEDs is pretty common depending on the era of the game!
@ben @SHODAN I could go on quite the rant about this...
I had to remove LEDs from Theatre of Magic because they drive me nuts. Games from its era drive the lamps in a matrix, pulsing half of lamps with the positive AC cycle and the other half with the negative cycle. This dramatically saves on wiring.
LEDs make that painfully visible, and it's even worse when the game does dimming effects (which it does all the time). Plus, the LEDs saved about 50 watts on a machine that uses 200 just to be on
@ben @SHODAN The thing is, the lamps in those games are long-life lamps. They were meant to be in arcades powered on for 16 hours a day (and maybe even 24/7). But, they darken with age and should be replaced perhaps yearly.
For so many reasons, LED swaps on games from that era just drive me up the wall. I want it to look like it did from the factory!
@TechConnectify @SHODAN 100% there are many games that should not have LEDs.
the ones I had in mind that are good for it are early-oughts stern games like the sopranos or Spiderman
@TechConnectify @ben @SHODAN Well, there are ways to get led replacements which act like the originals....
It's just .... not cheap and i actually don't know a vendor who sells ready to use ones...
@hackbyte @ben @SHODAN I honestly don't see them ever becoming widely available or reasonably priced.
I think it's safe to say that I'm in a minority who finds the instant-on nature of the LEDs to ruin any benefit. In fact, I imagine many people /like/ that. It can make the game feel more modern.
But that's exactly the opposite of what I'm goin' for.
slae 🍥@TechConnectify the charm is incandescents are something that cant be denied.
Chicago Gaming's several remakes of Bally/Williams games including Monster Bash and Cactus Canyon all have LEDs, but they feature incandescent emulation, and you can even set the speed of how long they take to fully turn on and off which is pretty dang swell.
@TechConnectify @ben @SHODAN I actually would have to refer way up to Curious Marc and Ken Shirrif for one of the few people probably implementing "accurate looking" LED replacements for some IBM computer/mainframe front panel bulbs..... uhm ;)
@ben @TechConnectify @SHODAN (which probably might not even be true..... but i know someone out of this broad circle got trougth the effort to restore a meaningful mainframe interface panel including a meaningful emulation of light bulbs .. including "fast calculation" half on states and stuff...... mhh.. ;))
Henk Langeveld@hackbyte @ben @TechConnectify @SHODAN
Hmmm, could that be an option for our ancient copy of Dark Tower?
ink and yarn@TechConnectify @hackbyte @ben @SHODAN There's a Williams Taxi here in my living room and I completely agree with you. I want it to look and feel like playing pinball in 1988. (That playfeel currently includes annoyingly random floppy flippers that we can't seem to diagnose/fix.)
@TechConnectify you should come by pinball expo next week!
GothPanda@TechConnectify I might have audibly squealed when I saw the topic of the video in my feed.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.@TechConnectify It's programming, but with motors (instead of clock cycles) and relays (instead of transistors)! Very cool.
The tight coupling and component reuse / multiplexing is so satisfying, as is the complete circuit diagram and well-labeled wires.
Excellent subject.
InsertUser@BoydStephenSmithJr @TechConnectify
And those relay logic diagrams are still used to program modern PLCs in many industrial situations.
Richard K Niner@TechConnectify in a bit of uncanny timing, this was the second video about the insides of pinball machines to appear in my feed/recommendations today
But it was definitely a great way to sate my curiosity 😀
Jade Strom🏳️⚧️@TechConnectify This is an AMAZING video, and this is also the earliest after posting I’ve actually WATCHED your content. Thank you for all the hard work you do on your channels!
AxWaxNew @TechConnectify video about pinball machines? 😍
My Saturday evening is sorted!
penguin42@TechConnectify Is the speed of the 'score'/5 motor carefully tuned? - everything else on the relay system is 'locked' and waits for an 'ok' from the thing being incremented.
@penguin42 Not that carefully - though Bally and Williams tended to run their motors more slowly than Gottlieb did, at least in the 1970's.
Gottlieb score motors are a wildly different beast, though. They are so much harder to wrap your head around (and I can show you one in the next video! but it's not attached to a working machine)
@TechConnectify It's pretty interesting; I guess you've got to get the timing right so that you don't try and add the next 5th until you've completed the previous 5th carry propagation has happened (huh unless you can have multiple additions with their carries ongoing...); that's kind of the equivalent of clocked vs async circuit design; but...then you've got circuits for 'going past a score' - that's really tricky if that's looking at the score as it's being added. Oh, and nice sparking 🙂
@penguin42 The timing of the cams (which is all down to their spacing and alignment of the switch stacks) is much more critical than the speed of the motor.
You could really "overclock" the machine as fast as you like until you start exceeded the speed at which the springs can reset the solenoids and relays.
Weirdly I guess it's a similar problem to valve float in internal combustion engines!
dakkar
fbn 🪤@TechConnectify
You are an absolute treasure!
I love your insane in depth videos about very (or not so) complex bits of technology. It is both entertaining and educational. Love it, keep it on
You are an absolute treasure!
I love your insane in depth videos about very (or not so) complex bits of technology. It is both entertaining and educational. Love it, keep it on
Christian Berger DECT 2763@TechConnectify An excellent video I can only recommend.
xanna@TechConnectify That might be your best post-credits subtitle gag ever 😆
Tech Support 
@TechConnectify I regret I won't be able to watch this, at least for a few days until my resolve softens 😂
@TechSupport @TechConnectify Muh..Not for this video ... but they finally got me.. mh ;)
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@hackbyte @TechSupport Without making any comment on YT's decision to start pestering folks about ad blockers...
YT Premium is genuinely better for creators than ads. They split the revenue in exactly the same way, so if you watch a lot of YouTube signing up for it legitimately supports creators. Every YT Premium view is worth significantly more than an ad-supported view, and it makes using the platform infinitely better.
/end of pitch
Gabbo the wafrn dev guy@[email protected]@[email protected]@[email protected] fuck im bad on moneys butt you made a point
@gabboman It's actually the same for me, as i wrote... but .. heck...
At least, now i get to watch ad free on my tablet and phone too..... ;)
@TechConnectify @hackbyte
That's fair.
I do want to contribute to creator's that I frequently watch, only Google/YouTube's ad serving has become so absurd (and sometimes malicious or offensive) that I felt it forced my hand to stop selectively allowing ad's
Going paid might be in the near future
@TechSupport @hackbyte Personally, I signed up for YT Red the instant it was available and have never once considered going back.
I'm blissfully unaware of what the ad situation even is because I just don't see them. Honestly I ought to be more responsible with finding out what ads are running on my videos, but I keep my eye out for what other people report and have a few categories/flags blocked in AdSense.
@TechConnectify @TechSupport "blissfully unaware of what the ad situation even is because" i have a good adblock solution overall...
But just on the desktop.
As i tried to play some of my yt music video playlists on my tablet or phone..... oh boy... was it bad...... truly bad. ;)
But yeah...
As i wrote in my original post. I actually consume _that_ much yt content overall..
Paying about 11,99€/Month from now on, is not _that_ bad of a deal.
(Including the point that i'm retired and need to live off social security assistance ;))
It's exactly that what even makes it astounding to me.. No service ever got me to that point.... but you freaking YouTube Creators totally made the great. ;)
(Yes @TechConnectify you're one of them, big thanks! ;))
digitalfox@TechConnectify Likewise, I've been splitting a family subscription with a friend and our immediate families since it was known as the Google Play Music All Access Family Plan. (Google is great at naming things.)
If you have some folks you trust to share the bill with (and you don't run afoul of the location requirements - might not apply to me due to originally being on a legacy plan?), it's been nice enough.
@TechSupport @hackbyte
@TechConnectify You're very welcome. ;)
HuK@TechConnectify @hackbyte @TechSupport
What's the cut of YouTube?
@HuK @TechSupport I truly don't know... Maybe @TechConnectify cloud answer this at least from the Creators Perspective..
I he didn't already did. ;)
@hackbyte @TechConnectify @TechSupport
So what is it #tldr 🤣
@HuK @hackbyte @TechSupport oh sorry, I didn't realize I left a question unanswered.
It's complicated by the YouTube music angle, but my understanding is the portion of the monthly fee that goes towards the video side of YouTube is split 55 creator/45 YouTube just like ad revenue.
@HuK @hackbyte @TechSupport how exactly the math works out re: how much you use YT Music vs. watching videos I don't know, but the bottom line is that every view from a Premium subscriber is worth significantly more to me than an ad-supported view. We can see this in our analytics.
@HuK @hackbyte @TechSupport annnnd having done a little digging, on day one of my Pinball machine video, Premium subscribers represented 32% of all views, yet they accounted for 44% of my revenue for the day.
It probably varies from creator to creator (and I don't run mid-rolls so my ad revenue could be larger) but I currently make about 35% more from Premium than I do ads on release days. On a baseline day, the split was 28% premium views representing 27% of my revenue, so about even.
Yeah, thanks @TechConnectify @TechSupport
BTW, just noticed the #Youtube #Monetization eligibility criteria of subscribes went down to 500.
I believe it was 1000 before.
So, perhaps now more feasible ven 😉
So, just subscribe ya'll : 🙂 https://youtube.com/Hukkinen
https://youtube.com/@Almighty-AI/
Old pinball machines are amazingly complex
Shoot for the magic trunk! Technology Connextras (the second channel where I put stuff sometimes) https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnextras Technology Connections on Mastodon: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify This channel is supported through viewer contributions on Patreon. Thanks to the generous support of people like you, Technology Connections has remained independent and possible. If you'd like to join the amazing people who've pledged their support, check out the link below. Thank you for your consideration! https://www.patreon.com/technologyconnections Image credits: "bagatelle" by Nikki Tysoe, used under Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en "Fortuna game at Media museum" by Olimar, used under Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en "Compiègne, France: Château de Compiègne. Les appartements historiques" by Andreas Praefcke, used under Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en 00:00 Intro 01:50 Aztec overview 05:23 A bit of history 08:00 An overview of the playfield 10:39 The scoring mechanism 19:30 The targets on the playfield and how they work 25:59 The flippers 28:44 Automation and the number 5 30:31 The score motor 33:47 5,000 point sequence 38:00 The AZTEC targets 41:32 The center target 43:24 The scanning sequence 46:36 Conclusion 48:46 Bloopers
@TechSupport @TechConnectify By the way, at least for now.... The following works out of the box:
Blocking those popups alltogether whith some means of script/adblocker tool.
Or just click on "Allow Youtube Ads" and on the next popup "Reload".
Which will usually get you back to whatever your adblocker already does. ;)
Piko Starsider 
@TechSupport try firefox with ublock origin, and if you're already using both, just clicking the X works for me.
Dirk Hartmann
The Who - Pinball Wizard (Live at the Isle of Wight, 1970)
@TechConnectify Very much looking forward to watching this. My interest in pinball was kicked off by a video of yours about the electromechanical mechanisms inside older jukeboxes. That led to reading about other devices from that era, and the working of EM pinball machines in particular caught my attention. Now my garage is overflowing with them!
@mrowe Sorry about that and/or you're welcome!
Much of this probably won't be new to you if you've been digging around in them before, but I hope you enjoy it anyway!
Frances LarinaIf you ever get the chance and are in the SF Bay Area, I'd highly recommend an in-person visit to https://www.pacificpinball.org