My online slots videos (plus UK AWPs)

[mack341]

dunover is free to have a Google and come back when he's realised his mistake

The correct (and incorrect) use of apostrophes is one of my personal bugbears so I'm always very particular about how I use them.

I think it depends then on how you read that title, not 'it's amazing method demonstrated' but 'it is amazing' 'method demonstrated'??

Or 'it's' is substituting for 'barcrest's'?

Grammar and syntax are not my strength, but I thought the possessive was 'its' to save confusion with 'it is' contracted as it's. If that makes sense

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I think it depends then on how you read that title, not 'it's amazing method demonstrated' but 'it is amazing' 'method demonstrated'??

Or 'it's' is substituting for 'barcrest's'?

Grammar and syntax are not my strength, but I thought the possessive was 'its' to save confusion with 'it is' contracted as it's. If that makes sense

Without the contraction the game would be called It Is Amazing, the It Is is contracted to It's, the apostrophe goes where the letter(s) are removed.

Its is indeed correct as a possessive, but on this occasion we are contracting It Is, not indicating a possessive.

So for example you could end up with a sentence like this:

It's Amazing is Barcrest's latest fruit machine, its most notable feature is how shit it is if you don't know the tricks that Barcrest accidentally on purpose put in there.

Where the first use of It's is a contraction, and the second its is a possessive. (Its does not take an apostrophe when a possessive.)

 

[goatwack]

I read it as the method being called 'It's Amazing', or as it turns out, the fruit machine. Otherwise the first part of that thumbnail would indicate Barcrest's was used as a plural, and by Jove that would have rubbed my rhubard.

If read as one segment, it makes sense, if split into two parts it becomes more confusing than an episode of Picard

 

[mack341]

Without the contraction the game would be called It Is Amazing, the It Is is contracted to It's, the apostrophe goes where the letter(s) are removed.

Its is indeed correct as a possessive, but on this occasion we are contracting It Is, not indicating a possessive.

So for example you could end up with a sentence like this:

It's Amazing is Barcrest's latest fruit machine, its most notable feature is how shit it is if you don't know the tricks that Barcrest accidentally on purpose put in there.

Where the first use of It's is a contraction, and the second its is a possessive. (Its does not take an apostrophe when a possessive.)

Oh I see, the game title is 'amazing', I must admit I missed that despite it being emblazoned on the machine

 

[johnnymcc1966]

I think dunover's been out making signs today.

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I'm surprised the owner's didnt add one to their own names.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Latest reupload now on the channel, which rather topically covers another one of Barcrest's, ahem...... 'coding oversights'.

This one was originally released in February 2018.

Fully timecoded if you watch on YouTube, has an EXCITING BONUS CONTENT section at the end where I visit the site of the former Grand Island hotel (it's been demolished for over a decade now) to reminisce about the last time I ever played an unchipped one of these.

 

[dunover]

It's is a contraction of 'it is', so the apostrophe is correct.

Barcrest's apostrophe is to indicate a possessive, so is also correct.

Yes, sorry I could only read the part visible on the video which if it were the only text would indeed have two incorrect apostrophes. (see my image). When it's expanded to show the full caption, this clearly shows it's referring to the game title 'It's Amazing' and Barcrest in the possessive, not plural as it reads when you don't see the whole thing properly, like I didn't....

I did think afterwards that you were not the kind of person to make that mistake, should've checked right then.

 

[dunover]

I read it as the method being called 'It's Amazing', or as it turns out, the fruit machine. Otherwise the first part of that thumbnail would indicate Barcrest's was used as a plural, and by Jove that would have rubbed my rhubard.

If read as one segment, it makes sense, if split into two parts it becomes more confusing than an episode of Picard

That's exactly what I saw, hence my erroneous apostrophe apology. I could of, should of payed more attention.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Yes, sorry I could only read the part visible on the video which if it were the only text would indeed have two incorrect apostrophes. (see my image). When it's expanded to show the full caption, this clearly shows it's referring to the game title 'It's Amazing' and Barcrest in the possessive, not plural as it reads when you don't see the whole thing properly, like I didn't....

I did think afterwards that you were not the kind of person to make that mistake, should've checked right then.

Ahhh right yes I get it, to me it's obvious because the machine is called It's Amazing and whilst the sentence unchipped ROMs found for Barcrests makes linguistic sense, it doesn't make sense logically because the immediate question is which Barcrests? Because there are hundreds of them.

A comma after It's Amazing would have helped I suppose. And you being able to see the whole thing

 

[philderby]

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[Kroffe]

dunover is free to have a Google and come back when he's realised his mistake

The correct (and incorrect) use of apostrophes is one of my personal bugbears so I'm always very particular about how I use them.

Im no gramophone nazi, but its brownbear.

 

[Jono777]

Latest reupload now on the channel, which rather topically covers another one of Barcrest's, ahem...... 'coding oversights'.

This one was originally released in February 2018.

Fully timecoded if you watch on YouTube, has an EXCITING BONUS CONTENT section at the end where I visit the site of the former Grand Island hotel (it's been demolished for over a decade now) to reminisce about the last time I ever played an unchipped one of these.

Will watch after tea, have some serious catching up to do since the new channel went live if I am totally honest!

Beat up a good few of these in the wild, back in the day, along with its sister 'Frenzy'

As I say not watched yet but will be interesting to see if our methods match or are similar.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Another old doable fruit machine, one I remember taking many a kicking on back in the day because I didn't have a clue how to play it 'properly', as ever the coders left the machine vulnerable to fuckery.

 

[mcgameboy]

That's exactly what I saw, hence my erroneous apostrophe apology. I could of, should of payed more attention.

So much for that all seeing eye of slots....

Maybe you didn't see it because of the mist cloud that you created from one of your painful rectal emissions

One of your recent Bonanza videos delivered this EPIC sequence.....

THUD, THUD, THUD (D doesn't drop)

You fucker

You filthy fucker (Mr. D proceeds to raise left buttock from his chair)

PHWARP. PHWAAAAAAAARPPPPP (Mr. D groans like he just shat a hedgehog)

 

[dunover]

So much for that all seeing eye of slots....

Maybe you didn't see it because of the mist cloud that you created from one of your painful rectal emissions

One of your recent Bonanza videos delivered this EPIC sequence.....

THUD, THUD, THUD (D doesn't drop)

You fucker

You filthy fucker (Mr. D proceeds to raise left buttock from his chair)

PHWARP. PHWAAAAAAAARPPPPP (Mr. D groans like he just shat a hedgehog)

Come on! You missed half the joke there ( @goatwack saw it!) - as well as deliberately doing my #1 hate by using 'of' instead of 'have' I also used 'payed' instead of 'paid'......

Guilty on the flatulence charge though m'lud...

 

[goatwack]

Seriously MgG, you don't honestly think Dunover would rite that? their's just no way!

 

[Kroffe]

 

[mcgameboy]

Come on! You missed half the joke there ( @goatwack saw it!) - as well as deliberately doing my #1 hate by using 'of' instead of 'have' I also used 'payed' instead of 'paid'......

Guilty on the flatulence charge though m'lud...

Actually, I remember your pet peeve of "could of" well. Mainly because it's one I share!

And as for me not even spotting "payed"? Oh FFS. All I can say is.....just shoot me now. No really. That's an epic fail on my part.
I totally deserve to be smacked in the face repeatedly with a wet haddock for that.

 

[mcgameboy]

Seriously MgG, you don't honestly think Dunover would rite that? their's just no way!

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[ChopleyIOM]

This was requested for reupload by someone over at Desert Island Fruits.

Originally uploaded June 2021 so it's one of the later videos from the old channel.

The main focus of this video isn't so much the emptier (although I do demonstrate it), but rather the state that the machine can be left in, and the amount of money it needs to recoup before it starts offering wins of over £3. Spoiler alert - it's a lot.

Also contains a couple of ranty sections where I get a bit cross about how fucking shit compensated machines were, and how the manufacturers and regulators really had a moral duty to do better.

 

[mack341]

There were regulators?

 

[ChopleyIOM]

BACTA are the culprits, they still regulate the industry to this day.

A bit like the UKGC they seem to have good intentions and sometimes get things right, but other times you realise they just don't seem to understand what it is they're supposed to be regulating.

So in the case of UK fruit machines we had a minimum RTP of 70% (!!!) along with blatant incompetence and/or corruption when it came to the manufacturers of these machines, and yet BACTA were getting their knickers in a twist about how much of a £10 note inserted into a machine should be automatically converted into credits for play.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Of only very niche interest I'm sure but it is the latest reupload to the channel, documenting the first time I played the fruit machine emulator back in 2001.

Fruit machine SIMULATORS had been a thing since the 8-bit computer days, but none of us ever thought there'd be an emulator.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Couple of fresh reuploads, a full emptier that never got rechipped for a machine called 'Clownin' Around' by BWB. (If you can find one of these tucked away in the corner of a seaside arcade somewhere, this will still work!)




And the second part of fruit machine emulation history.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

A reupload from the old channel, originally uploaded December 2017.

This is quite an interesting trick that worked on the real machine, getting £140 (double the jackpot value) on a single credit.

If you're not familiar with UK AWPs, in online slot terms imagine a slot that has a 5000x stake top prize, and there's a trick you can do to win 10,000x stake from a single spin.

This was done out in the wild on the real machine, and it was possible to do it twice on the same machine with stake switching, for a total take of £280. (Leaving a very dead machine behind you, as it knew it'd paid it out, and being compensated, it then had to get it all back.)