PFME - Updates and New Releases

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PFME v0.3.5
Fixed

• Seven machines were being worked through the wrong button panel and have been rewired.
• After a STAKE press on Celebrity Winwall the TOTAL BET box kept the scraps of the stake animation, and on the second spin most of the reel window went black. Both gone.
• Winwall Show Me The Money's top box said no players were connected and never left that screen. The stations were being set up in the factory's soak-test mode, which takes them off the link about a minute after power-up. They are set up for normal play now: the top box finds each station and shows its Winwall attract. A black block in the corner of the top box's screen and a station's status panel painting over its background have gone too, and the top box's two screens sit side by side.
• Twenty-five linked programs were never on the link wire at all, so their top box reported NO COMMS TO MASTER however long it waited. They talk now. Pure Gold Community, both builds, comes as a three-station bank.
• A linked cabinet whose top box has no lamps and no screen kept its speakers off for ever. The cabinet now waits for every station to boot, then the sound comes on.
• The volume control in a machine's own refill and test menus works. Each step is relative to where the machine arrived, so nothing gets louder or quieter by itself; up is louder, down is quieter, zero is silence. A game that asks for a quiet sound under a loud one gets it.
• Bloom on a lamp with a lit photograph landed inside the lamp, washing the lens out, with only the fringe reaching past the edge. It sits outside the lamp now.
• A lamp showing a blend of several colour lines glowed in the first colour only, so an amber lens burned red round its edge. The glow follows the mix.
• Desktop Machine (Ctrl+Shift+D) came up as a black box. It is now a frameless machine sitting on your desktop: drag it by the machine itself, resize with the mouse wheel, and press Ctrl+Shift+D again to come back.
• The artwork editor listed a symbol once per reel, so a picture printed on six reels needed six file dialogs. One row per symbol now, and Replace, Reset and Rename reach every reel in one undo. Game Configuration, the key map and the artwork editor stay in front of the cabinet whichever window you click, and a symbol still on its built-in picture no longer shows an empty frame on an installed copy.
• The help and menus say layout where they said face.

Known

• The first launch of each machine after this update starts it from cold instead of where you left it. Meters and settings are kept.
• Of the Winwall machines only Show Me The Money is checked. Spinwall and Celebrity Winwall are set up the same way and have not been re-tested. Community play on the wall itself is still being worked on.
• A STAKE button on a Winwall station does nothing, and that is the game: each stake plug gives one fixed stake (10p, 25p or 50p), so change it in Cabinet > Game Configuration rather than at the panel.
• The three symbols on the Pure Gold Community top box are a best guess in prize order. If one looks wrong, say which.
• The blended-lens glow has only been checked by test, not on screen. If a lens still glows the wrong colour, say so.
• The Double Decker top box lists each cell twice, as lamp-r7-c3 and lamp-b1-r7-c3. Same bulb; use the shorter name.
• The station's stake panels are guesswork. No photograph of a dual-stake glass has turned up.
• Roughly seventy machines have no reel index of their own, so a win line that looks a row out is worth reporting.
• Sit-down and upright are checked both ways on the Double Decker only. On the other eight, a lamp lighting with no name in the editor is worth reporting.
• Nothing else has changed in how a machine plays.

Reported or asked for by re-emulated and others on the forum.
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