AGEMAME HQ

At present, if you look at the fruit machines emulated in AGEMAME, you can’t help but notice the text display that goes with them.

However, it’s a hack, albeit a very subtle one.

At the moment, the emulated game sends commands to the handler for the display, which are converted directly to ASCII characters. These are then just drawn directly to the screen.

In actuality, the commands relate to a look up table which holds on and off data for 16 different ’segments’ of the display, which can all be controlled individually (there are only 15 visible segments, one of them controls an as yet unimplemented function).

The new version of AGEMAME will use that method of controlling the display, which will lead to a slightly harder to read, but infinitely more accurate display.