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Call to Action Demand Open source code from all pinball manufacturers

By TechnicalSteam

6 years ago


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    #57 6 years ago
    Quoted from zacaj:

    Supposedly it is/was but I can't find the code on their site anymore

    I have a feeling the link to the source code was taken down after people started taking the piss out of the quality of it. You can still find it here:
    http://www.benheck.com/Downloads/amh/AMH_code.zip

    What I would like is companies properly following the GPL/open source licenses. For example, Big Guys Pinball ripping off QEMU, PPS also were playing a bit fast and loose with what they were doing with their remakes.

    #65 6 years ago
    Quoted from herg:

    If AMH was marketed as an open source game with open source software, then when final software finally came, they decided to close the source because they weren't happy with the comments they were getting, that truly sucks. Maybe that's not really the reason behind it, but it does seem like that might be the case.

    TBH I have no idea why the link to the source was removed, just a wild ass guess seeing as the rest of it was left up there, just the main game source was removed.

    At the end of the day, Ben is a jack of all trades, so it's not a personal dig at him. Hell the first time I wrote pinball code it was downright embarrassing, but it's a learning curve. Just a real shame that Spooky don't go for something like Github for source revision control, rather than lumping it all into a single file. It would mean that the community could work together to make it better.

    EDIT: It seems some of the files are on Github, just not the main game code:
    https://github.com/LonghornEngineer/Pinheck_Pinball_System

    #67 6 years ago

    There is a valid business case, MPF and Gerrys offerings both have an open source component to them:
    https://github.com/preble/pyprocgame
    https://github.com/missionpinball/mpf

    As for ROI, it means they have libraries with more features/bugfixes etc, meaning the hardware they sell is more attractive. But this is something that will only ever appeal to boutique makers, not to someone like Stern/JJP.

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    #72 6 years ago
    Quoted from Wolfmarsh:

    I don't see the code for Lexi Lightspeed up anywhere

    Like I said, open source *components*, in the example of Lexi Lightspeed, it'll be using some form of pyprocgame, which has contributions from the P-ROC community.

    In any case, both Stern/JJP use open source software in the form of Linux. I know it might be hard for you to understand how a business can make a profit from producing open source software, but many do.

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