I've been thinking about the future of old pinball. Lets say between 10 and 30 years from now. There will be hard to get parts etc. some might sell new boards etc like rottendog etc. but could it be done in any other way?
Basically my idea is a universal interface cable/cables and a smart phone thingy. The phone or device would function as the CPU board and sound board and emulate many machines. I came to think of it when playing pinball arcade for ps3. The games are in the phone, what if I could hook up the phone to a real machine and play it. Of course the power driver board can't be emulated with a phone but maybe the rest... I have not thought about it so much but in some way it might be able to do =)