FreeBSD on early 2000s gambling machines

[DerTeufel]

Hello!

When watching a documentary, I noticed that this gambling machine of the early 2000s uses FreeBSD.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFJGBL4uQiQ
minute 3:28
A short sequence of the inside is shown, but it is not possible to see the hardware. From the listing it includes an Intel ICH5 chipset, most likely a Pentium 4 or Celeron, an Nvidia GEforce 5200 and a Realtek 8169 NIC.

Anyone who knows more about those machines and their inside?

 

[MG]

Probasbly easy to find if you know the brand and model.
I think it's just a dated PC that controls the game system using a serial cable.

 

[atax1a]

this kind of casino game was the first and last place we ever saw MNG files being used as anything other than a demonstration of the format.

 

[Zare]

I have been to a casino only once in my life, when a friend who goes to them told me he got some patterns going on in some card game, hi lo thing. I tried to reason to him and say all those machines are preset so house wins, there are no patterns but he was adamant. We decided I will track him, keep a cellphone in pocket and just punch in 1 for hi and 2 for low and analyze it later as a bitstream.

Of course there were no patterns in it.

 

[Espionage724]

Hello!

When watching a documentary, I noticed that this gambling machine of the early 2000s uses FreeBSD.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFJGBL4uQiQ
minute 3:28
A short sequence of the inside is shown, but it is not possible to see the hardware. From the listing it includes an Intel ICH5 chipset, most likely a Pentium 4 or Celeron, an Nvidia GEforce 5200 and a Realtek 8169 NIC.

Anyone who knows more about those machines and their inside?

4:06 he's using Firefox!

I want to know more about that machine too; the inside looks clean, and FreeBSD's choice looks intentional. I tried searching random words on front like "spielstelle" but that might be a generic word

I researched a little into Konami music game machines (DDR, Sound Voltex) and found different Windows versions interesting; it's mostly a regular X86 PC, but the I/O system for controller and lights is specialized along with games having cloud hooks (Eamusement; region score saving, song unlock, cab software updates).

I see tons of random gambling machines with large front touchscreens; I don't know how regulation works, but FreeBSD might be an interesting niche there (if it isn't already used )

 

[Zare]

Anyone who knows more about those machines and their inside?

Normal PC, normal PC screen, and serial based input controller.

One of machines that evokes great memories from college days :
MP3 jukebox + quizzes and various games, coin operated. It actually had a standard ATX PC case inside.

 

[MG]

I have been to a casino only once in my life, when a friend who goes to them told me he got some patterns going on in some card game, hi lo thing. I tried to reason to him and say all those machines are preset so house wins, there are no patterns but he was adamant. We decided I will track him, keep a cellphone in pocket and just punch in 1 for hi and 2 for low and analyze it later as a bitstream.

Of course there were no patterns in it.

It would be illegal in most places because gambling can't require skills or invisible knowledge.