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OMG! A PC to Pinball Machine USB Interface.
gstellenberg:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 07, 2011, 07:52:23 am ---How close are you to being able to drive an existing machine with the existing solenoid/power? The real win is going to be when I can take the expensive and failure prone boards out of a Black Knight and make it reliable via a PC.
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The P-ROC board has been used to replace the original CPU board in existing machine for a couple of years now (and run the original code through the P-ROC via pinmame). This works directly in WPC and Stern Whitestar/SAM machines. For older machines, some customers have built interface boards that sit between the P-ROC and original boards.
Is that what you were asking?
- Gerry
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 07, 2011, 12:30:26 pm ---You could also learn to solder and replace the interconnects. Made a Firepower dead reliable for me....
once I got an MPU that worked.
:P
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That's the thing. Some of those MPU boards are fixed that way. Others are just all FUBARed and it would be better to use something like this to replicate one instead.