What's New?
4th April 2023
Model field has been added to machine description. See Strike Master as an example.25th March 2023
A new type of picture has been added to the site: promotional photo. It is intented for promotional pictures coming from manufacturers. See Williams Flying Discs as an example.22nd February 2023
Price field has been added to machine description. See Bally ABC Bowler as an example.21rst February 2023
Illustrated field has been added to machine description. For each publication listed, it indicates pages where you can see that machine. In case of a magazine, we try to provide the oldest date, as advertisements were generaly publish in several issues. When several pages are given for one magazine, it is because the photos are different. See Wisconsin Novelty Bowl-A-Way as an example.18th February 2023
Today the site passed the 500 referenced machines milestone.5th February 2023
A new type of resource has been added to the site: catalog. It is meant for a resource which is not a manual and neither a schematic. Today the first catalog has been uploaded to the site. It is a catalog of Bally Shuffle-Bowler.23rd January 2023
Today the first schematic has been uploaded to the site. It is a schematic of Chicago Coin Royal Crown.2nd January 2023
From now on, the site is no more updated in batch but file by file and updates can be tracked in Change Log. The date and time each HTML file (machine or other files) is updated can be found at the bottom left of the file. UTC is used.1rst January 2023
- Game page has been updated to add room for resource (schematics and manuals). The first game to contain a resource is Williams Strike Master.
- Creation of Change Log for a more precise account of changes in machines.
- Listing has been modified to provide faster browsing in 3 clicks:
- (1) The green box at the top provides short cuts to all manufacturers. To get to the list of games of a selected manufacturer, click on the name start of this manufacturer.
- (2) You arrive at the top of the list of games of the selected manufacturer. click on the game initial.
- (3) You are directed to the sub-list of games with the selected initial; click on the game you target.
- You need 3 clicks to get to a machine: as an example, to reach United's Delta game, click on Unit. Once on United list click on D. You are almost at destination. Just click Delta and you have arrived. Note if for a selected manufacturer you click on a game initial and there is no game starting by this letter you do not move (e.g. United has no game starting by letter Q so clicking on this letter has no effect)
- Missing pictures were added as a result of a bug fix in the tool 'mksite' that builds the site.
- Website has been rebuilt using CSS. Page format has been homogenized. CSS will ease further modifications. All the navigation pages have been cleaned.
9th December 2022 update
After a long eclipse, the site is back in its own domain http://bowlerdb.org. 483 machines are referenced, and there are 3373 pictures of 405 different machines.
2005-2009
The website is hosted by Clay Harrell at http://www.pinrepair.com/shuffle/. In 2005, 458 machines are referenced, and there are 3194 pictures of 372 different machines.
25th February 2000
The website is created and hosted at http://members.nbci.com/shufflealley/.
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