What do you mean. RZ uses PinHeck REV7D. We have a REV8 EOTL in the works for Bible Adventures Part 1.

I don't know, I'm in the process of designing my own electronics and software for my own machine, so I geek out at learning the details of others. And for the record, mine is much more of a WTF kludge than PinHeck lol

And besides, the interesting part is that it looks like we can add yet another pin manufacturer to the list in possible legal trouble for intellectual property violations. How many are we up to now?

What a load of rubbish. There would be nothing to gain by either party taking the matter any further. In fact there would be everything to lose. I think everyone should just move on and get back to making great pinball.

The fact something like this needs to be added to the list in the first place is the most disconcerting part.

Apparently it is all industry standard stuff - there are no secrets or surprises here at all.

Exodus 20:15 mode. Make it so.

In the end it's not that big of a deal. It was open source and available for a while.

Just bugs me that he's denying it instead of saying thanks.

It's not my call whether they should pursue it or not, that's up to Ben and his team, and it sounds like it's not a big deal to them. That's fine! Good for them! But when you have yet another company that refuses to acknowledge that they stole the design without either paying or giving a thanks, that's a problem for the industry. Why not just say "hey, you put together a good system and it was open source, so we used it. Thanks! " Claiming credit for others' work or making some ridiculous claim that the pinball code was provided by Microchip (or whoever they fumbled their way to) doesn't earn you my business.

Still boring

I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for an admission.

At the very least you got it on the record with irrefutable proof which is what matters to those who matter.

Build pinball because you love building pinball and everything will be all right.

Aaron
FAST Pinball

Cough.....star wars......cough.

Even if mike did steal the code, he couldn’t fess up for fear of admission and possibly losing license / getting sued / having to give them a cut or agree to commercial terms? It’s messy.

Question to Ben, if mike openly admitted he took the code and credited you somewhere, would you let him have it with free reign?

The art on the new Stern Star Wars could have been SO much better with very little cost (might have cost them an LE game) Spring for the cost of all new art on a Playfield with a Class A fantasy artist, find someone that can tell a story... Shoe a character here... and one there; simply for the sake of needing to show X number of characters.

Unfortunately this trend has continued in to movie posters... consider the following original concept design pieces compared to the more recent "special edition"

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I agree with you about hand-drawn art over photo collages, but Drew Struzan is the best fantasy artist of all time...

Of. All. Time.

Please if there’s a god let there Guardians or Maiden be good.

Who is doing Guardians? If it's Borg, it will be.

Will have to agree to disagree on this when it comes to Star Wars art my favorite is Dave Dorman. And since I am an ex D&D nerd and Larry Elmore is a personal friend of mine, I am prejudice and saying that he's the greatest living fantasy artist.

Larry Elmore has a special place for me as an old RPG head. So many influential covers. And great range too, not just the classic D&D, he did things like Shadowrun too.

Drew Struzan is great, but if we're talking all time classics he doesn't outweigh Frank Frazetta in my eyes.

Larry, Drew and Frank all good. But I was always more of a Boris Vallejo fan myself from way back when.

I am big Boris Vallejo fan myself and used to own one of his original oils. I still regret selling it.

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Yikes. Jesus on roids. I think you were wise to sell it.

But I am sure he has a name or two he calls you. But don't worry, all his friends call you that name, especially when they are in Toronto...

European pinball artists LOVED Frazetta and Vallejo, their work 'inspired' the look of tons of dodgy Spanish and Italian machines throughout the 80s.

Diveters like used in TOTAN and BSD games and the shots in TOM, ramps that go through the back of game like NASCAR and IM to get more in game and the back double scoop shot like in AFM or whatever it’s called or you know what I am tying to say. Simple thinks I have not seen used in new games from the past.