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FREEWPC
Sonny_Jim:
--- Quote ---I see a three year old video of an unplayable tech demo. No progress since?
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Scroll down the page a bit :banghead:
FreeWPC TZ Gameplay:
FreeWPC TZ Attract mode:
I can assure you that we have fully playable builds of WCS, TZ and Corvette. At the moment we are looking for play testers, so if you are interested I can send you some ROM's to try or you can download them from the googlecode site.
Sonny_Jim:
You'll have to find someone to burn a ROM for you unfortunately or you can fire up Visual Pinball and test it that way. You can grab the ROM from here:
http://code.google.com/p/freewpc/downloads/detail?name=ftz_dev.zip
One of the reasons why we are taking our time with it is to ensure that when we do finally have a public release, it will be absolutely rock solid, so bear in mind that is a development ROM and it might reset from time to time due to bugs.
This is down to the hardware watchdog protecting the hardware from harm when it spots a bit of code misbehaving. As I said before I've been using it in my table for quite a while now with no adverse effects but you understand that I have to say that you fit it AT YOUR OWN RISK.
If you want to try it out in Visual Pinball, we have to trick Pinmame into loading it, some quick instructions:
1. Download FreeWPC ROM
2. Unpack tz_94.zip in your $PINMAME/roms to a subdirectory called 'tz_94h'
3. Backup $PINMAME/roms/tz_94h/tz_94h.rom to somewhere
4. rename ftz1_0.rom to tz_94h.rom and copy to $PINMAME/roms/tz_94h/
5. When starting a table in VP,make sure that 9.4H software is selected, some tables give you the option, some don't
Also it's a good idea to join the FreeWPC mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/FreeWPC
Sonny_Jim:
I finally got around to uploading the FreeWPC presentation we did at the UK Pinball Party:
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