Last Update July 2024

_ Sirmo Magic Screen _

This is Cool`…Ian writes in for help on his new machine and we get a little more insight on

the early circa 2000 Sirmo Bingos`…It turns out that Ole South and Magic Screen although different, are similar`

Our first peak inside revels that they share the same CPU technology, but Magic Screen is next generation and

adds in a graphics card`…The first step in bringing video into the Bingos, literally changing them forever`

Clearly the Sirmo design team was busy and thinking way ahead`…Very Cool

Nice engineering; looking forward and designing a CPU with the ability to advance from the simpler dot-matrix games in Ole South

to running full video`…Enabling a whole new era and spectrum of Special Games for the 6-Card the Bingos

Ian’s first internal photo to me: Sitting next to the CPU1000 PCB and it’s ultimate design purpose`…a smaller, UPG 1.5 vga graphics card`

Ian sent in a few more photos and they seem to confirm Magic Screen and Ole South are basically alike`

Later on you’ll read I found that the Ole South manuals can be used for Magic

Hence the reason I group them together in this Theory Section

This style of keypad is also a huge clue that the logic operation follows this generation of games`

Great resolution photos – Thanks Ian

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