Quoted from erikie:

There is more ram in the machine then can ever be used by the current prism card and with a mame driver you can modify it yourself and recompile it
The NIC detection process works. I started writing my own driver and stopped at the moment that it was recognized correctly. The rest of the logic still needs to be finished.
Yes updates works, however the "normal" flash process does not work yet. However the updates are in nvram which is a file. Just update that with the version you want and it works. Also the 8Mb experimental update version (2.30) of applejuice works fine.
DCS does not work, commands are being send to either the midway IC or the other custom programmed cpld. I cannot find anything about those so looking at other drivers which uses the same 2104 adsp.

Quoted from erikie:

DCS is now working. The sound roms for RFM which are found on the internet are not correct. Luckily I had already dumped my own roms.
In mame I had to really underclock the mediaGX to get the emulation to run on 100% otherwise the ADSP (sound CPU) is not getting enough cycles so it will not really work. The downside is that the graphics are not as smooth as they should be.
Really need a better emulation system to get some performance.
So I will have a look and try to get things working in qemu just like nucore did. Can't be that hard with already a working mame version

Quoted from erikie:

I hope to add my code into the mame repository soon. Need to create a pull request. More people can then optimize my code. I am very certain that improvements can be made. However my main goal was to get things working

Quoted from mdeslaur:

Out of curiosity, any progress on porting the work to qemu?

Quoted from erikie:

After a year not working on this at all, I now started on getting it to work in QEMU.
Also want to make a DCS 2 emulator at least to extract sounds but maybe incorporate it in the emulator if it is quick enough

Quoted from erikie:

Graphics now work, not as fast as I would like. Need to rework this. Switching between machines is pretty easy by modifying a text file at the moment.
No DCS (yet). Console access works nicely.
I have a new pcie LPT adapter on my desk now with an extra cable. Also an LPT usb cable. Lets see if that would be possible. Would be need to just plug in the usb in the computer and db25 in the driver board.
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Quoted from kasManiac:

Any way to request/ask/beg for Nucore/pinbox source files? If nobody is updating SWEP1, let us try! I've virtualized SWEP1 on a old Dell computer and working a USB-parallel interface so we can use any computer with USB as well as HDMI connections instead of VGA.
Is there a software program to intercept parallel communications and save the results?

Quoted from erikie:

Finally running full speed in qemu
Created a special machine for pinball 2000
Left out all unnecessary stuff. Running really smooth next steps are real DCS emulation
And hooking up the parallel Port and connect my game to this code

Quoted from erikie:

why is this so important for you? As you keep asking this. However I stripped all the serial Port code. So no it will not be possible to update the code via serial Port (which are hard to find anyway on a modern motherboard). Updating via usb stick should be doable. For the moment it is manual work
However it is possible to install a lot of different verslons of the same game.

Quoted from Tommy-dog:

I have owned my PB2000 game for about 20 years. I was nervous too about parts. So nervous, I bought 3 extra prism cards, 4 extra ram boards, two pub cards, extra motherboard and 4 extra CPU processors. BUT, I never had anything fail on me yet. I have NO interest in selling my extra parts so don't PM me.

Quoted from Tommy-dog:

Power supplies grow on trees, basically. Finding a computer power supply will not be an issue.