Quoted from pinballwil:Well its a problem of modern days.
MMR has the same problem 10.000 transistors and a beaglebone on a small footprint non repairable.
What if they stop 4 years after cc ?, can we trow your mmr in the trashcan?.
JJP games pc based, maybe change for a stock pc i don't no.
Highway pc based can be changed.
And i don't see the powersupplys less more than 6 years, but easy to fix that.
So almost every modern pinball is a trow away machine.
pc motherboard cost almost nothing, so 10.000 spike2 cost less than 100 dollar a piece i think.
These are some good points honestly.
Look inside a WOZ and all of the custom parts, PC etc. What is going to happen if they go belly up?
I'm hoping just like in certain arcade scenarios, these boards can be reproduced worse case if Stern goes under with a FGPA solution of some kind. Maybe that's wishful thinking but where there's a will and all that...
