Quote from: billstats on July 17, 2009, 10:06:39 PM

Quote from: ajlaird on July 16, 2009, 01:39:14 AM

Welcome aboard, great time to get involved in the forum with so many parts coming in to the country, Pinball Museum on the go, and a couple of new pinball machines being built by the Coconut Island guys.

 $#$gday aj , thanks for the welcome ,who are the coconut island guys ,& have they got a production pinball machine? ....bill

Basically they are a couple of backyarders from Geelong, one of whom has designed a pinball control system in Visual Basic. It uses a standard PC as the controller, and from memory it uses some sort of video gaming switch matrix to interface with the playfield.

They have built one pinball machine to date out of secondhand parts, entitled 'Coconut Island'. It debuted earlier this year at the Pinball Expo in Sydney.

They now have another two machines on the go. One is themed Ghosts 'n' Goblins, the other is still under wraps.

No one is doing production machines at the moment apart from Stern. %$%gday aj, that sounds unreal ,I went to the sydney expo ,I did not notice that coconut machine, although the hall was packed with pushy ,sydneysiders....So obviously the guys have been working on these machines for quite a while...