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--- eop:commercial_electronics:lottery_machines [2022/01/04 19:49] – io55admin
+++ eop:commercial_electronics:lottery_machines [2024/05/17 22:51] (current) – [DOS (+Doom)] io55admin
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 ====== Lottery Machines ======
+Either the machines used to purchase lottery tickets directly (kiosk-style), or the machines used by a cashier to process one's lottery ticket. Over time, they have evolved from an x86 base and a Windows or DOS operating system, to x86 and ARM CPUs with either Windows or Linux-based operating systems.
 ===== Illinois Lottery =====
-=== Operating Systems (x86?) ===
+==== Operating Systems (x86?) ====
-== Linux ==
+=== Linux ===
-Quite like the Wisconsin (?) lottery machine, the Illinois lottery also uses Linux. Close economic linkage between the two, maybe?
+Quite like the Wisconsin (?) lottery machine, the Illinois lottery also uses Linux. Close economic linkage between the two, maybe? Or maybe, that's just the standard for American state lotteries?
 https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/80xngr/my_works_lottery_machine_apparently_uses_linux/
+===== Intralot/Microlot Systems =====
+==== Operating Systems (x86?) ====
-===== Montana Lottery =====
+=== Gentoo ===
-=== Operating Systems (x86?) ===
+>I sure have been trying, but my keyboards won't connect to it.
+Runs an old version. Who knows where this guy found this thing.
-== DOS (+Doom) ==
+https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/u61qy8/found_this_old_lottery_machine_running_gentoo/
+===== Montana Lottery =====
+==== Operating Systems (x86?) ====
+=== DOS (+Doom) ===
 >It was basically an old DOS box inside, so it wasn’t much of a stretch software-wise
-Good luck finding one of these, although apparently it’s quite simple to run these things. Simply insert a disk and make it auto-run?
+Good luck finding one of these. It is easy to make these run some other program though, apparently. One can simply insert a disk and set it to auto-run, and it will run it.
 https://command-tab.com/2006/03/24/doom-lottery-machine/
-https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/comments/9c0az9/doom_on_a_lottery_machine/
+https://web.archive.org/web/20190327135041/https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/comments/9c0az9/doom_on_a_lottery_machine/
-== Emulation Nest ==
+=== Emulation Nest ===
 This device runs an operating system which is known to emulate various devices with EOPs. See the [[eop:operating_systems:conventional:dos|DOS]] page.
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 ===== Wisconsin(?) Lottery =====
-=== Operating Systems (Intel x86) ===
+==== Operating Systems (Intel x86) ====
-== Linux ==
+=== Linux ===
-The OS that runs by default on these systems.
+The OS that runs by default on these systems. EOP possibilities are simultaneously endless and unknown.
 https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/b79rlu/my_works_lottery_machine_runs_on_linux/