Thank you very much for this!

So did this info come direct from Keith Johnson?

Yeah.. I was thinking about this too..

And what to stop a guy from installing a faster processor too? As long as it's within the same family it should work.

I have read there is a JJP google groups but I haven't been able to find it. Searched groups.google.com and came up empty.. Do you have a link to this discussion group?

This is the issue with all games based on PC technology. It moves forward so fast that eventually you can't get parts for your game anymore..

Same thing happened to P2K.

Since you have spares, perhaps you can fill in all the specs JJP is using so I don't have to take my game apart to find out on my own.

Also, on the SSD drives, it would seem that any SSD of the required capacity would work unless JJP is utilizing some special feature of Intel's SSD firmware or something. Correct?

True on both counts.. *If* someone takes on the project of emulating whatever it is we need to emulate..

Yes caps age.. But aren't we past the whole leaking cap thing on motherboards?

I was collecting back in the bad old days after WMS closed and there were no parts to be had or very few NOS items for BIG dollars.

I'd rather buy the critical parts my game needs to run now and stash them in a closet.

Oh.. I thought most of that leaking cap baloney has been solved by now. Guess not.

But wait!! MSI uses "Military Class 4" components!! Those won't leak!

I'll take my chances and hoard a motherboard anyways. Caps can be replaced.

So I am wondering what processor The Hobbit has in it's H81M board. Anyone know?

Interesting.. So you have actually replaced a JJP motherboard and found an i3 installed?

If so that conflicts with info I was told on the JJP google group that JJP uses celeron processors.

I suppose if the drivers for whatever sound card you wanted to use were already included in the kernel it should work. In theory.

I have been messing around with Dell R710s and other such beasts lately so I have been out of touch for several years on the desktop stuff.

I agree that for basic pinball machine functions that either processor is overkill. It would seem that most of the cpu horsepower JJP uses in their games is the onboard graphics processor on the core cpu's. I was under the impression that onboard graphics on the celeron processors was not as good as i3. But then perhaps the demand on the cpu is low enough that a celeron would be just fine.

Resurrecting this old post to share further information on this subject.

I can say from first hand experience that the H81M-E33 mainboard does NOT work in WoZ. The system gets to "system init" and just keeps rebooting over and over.

The only difference between this board and the H81M-P33 is that the E33 has HDMI and 4k support whereas the P33 only has DVI.

Both board are based on the same H81 chipset and both boards have the exact same features except HDMI vs DVI. So there must be something different about how the chipset handles video or something the JJP software does not like.