I won't bother commenting further - let what happens, happen.
You weren't commenting you were just being you.
People also whinge about surface mount tech in newer Sterns, I don't care, just play.things ain't gonna change as this is how we move forward by trial and error and either learning by mistakes or to keep making them.
Who am I to judge? Just a dumb surfy.
Good point - But - I can buy a replacement Stern CPU board for around $500. In 10 years, I should be able to buy the same board for $200. Maybe someone like Homepin or Rottendog, or Pascal might repro the same board and I can still restore the LOTR to a high standard with repro boards - maybe an "all in one".
Nucore TRIED to resurrect the software side of the platform. A great product, but too many people prevented this from saving so many games 
Once the P2K Cyrix processor is obsolete. The P2K MPU board is obsolete. No one repros PRISM boards. No one repros 20 year old PC CPU boards. Try contacting ANY CPU board manufacturer to reproduce a 20 year old CPU board !
History has already provided enough evidence. SMD technology has been around a long time and it is not proprietary. P2K was the most impressive innovation of the last 30 years - but it was NEVER designed to last as long as ANY platform before it.
some one might do what they do with old pc games, create an emulator to play the software rather than remaking an old pc
That is a big Plus side to Pc style brains.
Why would you recreate old tech hardware when you can create emulators via software cheaper?
I would be willing to bet thats what people in the future will be doing with those pc based pinballs when they die in the arse.
