I see Mike's runs on the board with his contribution to the hobby as heavily outweighing the attacks being made by this JPP person;
Mike has delivered in spades as and when with boards and help - never did see anyone wait several years for a reply with a bunch of LIES about delivery dates in between;
The attitude displayed by this JPP employee and the support by his management leaves me quite happy to stick to my classic embedded controller games, safe in the knowledge that what I can't fix can be fixed by experts like Mike.
So, Mike makes boards, so official Aussie Pinball policy is he's allowed to say anything he wants no matter how false it is? This is a serious question I would like an answer to, and do remember I'm not affiliated with JJP.
If he comes in and says Stern pins are made in North Korea using child labor and include small fragmentation bombs in the power supplies that are all synchronized to explode on January 26, 2014... that's now fact and no one is allowed to dare counter his expertise?
Mate... Mike can say a PC based system is rubbish if he wants. History has them as flaky and he is well and truly allowed to express his opinion to which, members here will evaluate based on their own intelligence.
You and Pinchrome are also well and truly allowed to express completely conflicting opinions, post videos to support etc and again, members here will evaluate.
But... what we don't like on AP is very aggressive and insulting posts... this is not RGP or Pinside or AA for that matter. Any conversations you have had on those forums are on those forums and members here would like them to stay there.
Say what you like but articulate it, not go posting foul language and insults... we don't like it here.. it makes for bad reading and drags the forum down.
What is the issue here?? Boot times?
Quick search for WOZ boot time on Google brings up conversations on Pinside... Pinchrome has it at about 14 seconds... video has it at 30 seconds... unknown customer has it at 3 minutes ( which could well be an exaggeration and some sarcastic humour thrown in... switch on - go make cup of tea - come back and ready to play... I say the same about GTB 70's EM games... flip the ball, make cup of tea - flip ball again
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So what?... Personally, I don't care if it takes 1 minute to boot or 30 secs... if you cant wait a minute to play a game go evaluate yourself not the game.
Will the system stand up over the test of time? - We don't know, the machine will prove itself over the years. This is something that can only be evaluated once machines are delivered and played many times.. something the majority of WOZ buyers ( not owners) are still waiting to do.
Ok.. we have Mikes opinion which we are all aware of... we have yours which we are all aware of... we have Pinchromes which we are also aware of... and there my friend is where all this stalls because without the machines to demonstrate with we are only left with opinions, hearsay and some random videos on Utube...
Personal opinions about a persons machine is what counts and for that... well we now impatiently wait.
There is a massive hold up at JJP - speculation is the PC based system is proving a hassle.. my take is that you are making the boards as you go along... we could all be wrong but without a TRUE and factual statement from JJP we will continue to speculate... Pinchromes rants have done nothing to quell that speculation.
