Key Terminology

pinMAME: 

Pinball Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator

• a publicly created open source software which emulates the original game code of a wide array of Pinball machines from numerous manufacturers.

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MPU:

Main Processing Unit

• The MPU is responsible for running the software that controls the game logic. It can be thought of as the 'brain' of the hardware.

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ROM:

Read Only Memory

• These are the software instructions the MPU uses to run Panthera.

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LISY80:

• ​A replacement MPU PCB for the original control boards.  The LISY80 board allows use of a Raspberry Pi Zero to store game code and allow custom features to be implemented for the machine's function.​

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