"What facts have you offered up to back up your claims about this board.....none - My advice to you old man is to do some research"
If you think for one second I haven't researched ALL available processors and methods then you are pretty silly. I will have spent $2mill of my own money building a pinball factory by the end of this year - exactly what have you done to be so knowledgeable on these hobby boards? I'm guessing you have played with a few and think they are the bees knees. They certainly have their place for sure BUT it is NOT in a finished commercial product worth thousands of dollars and to say it is, is just nonsense.
I am sick and tired of people like you promoting this to be true - it just isn't! Again, if they were so wonderful why didn't Stern just use these - NO THEY DIDN'T because they are a professional company and know better!
You have said it all - I am an "old man" and therefore couldn't possibly know what has happened in the past 30 years in the amusement industry could I now?
I am guessing that you have zero industry knowledge (that you have shared with us, but please prove me wrong) spouting that these "toy" boards are the best thing ever made - it just isn't true and one day when you have a bit more knowledge yourself you might just realise this.
My MAIN beef is that people like yourself espouse the fantastic benefit of things like this and that is simply not true in an application like this. But you won't listen so I won't waste any more of my time - I just hope not too many have been swayed into believing your rubbish.
The best thing to come from this thread IMO is the solid advice to anyone buying one of these POS and that is to buy a spare BeagleRockPieTart board STRAIGHT AWAY and sock it away because they just will not be available in two years time and I will bet you a new pinball machine on that!
