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| JoeB:
Candy cabs are not 100$ if you find one in ok condition under 1000$ jump all over it! Putting a trisync monitor in a cab that came with a mid/low IS equivalent to the same as putting a tv or LCD in it. For purists that want original as much as possible (including playing games in their original 240p mode) the uvc is the only solution, no matter how imperfect it is. A lot of the 200x shooters made by cave still cost >1000$ just for the pcb alone. This is why xbox360 ports of those games scaled to 240p are so popular (even if the games still cost 50$+ on xbox360) Until there is a better solution, I'll stick to using the uvc as its a darn good lag free scalar for real arcade monitors. |
| icka:
--- Quote from: JoeB on August 11, 2012, 09:31:48 am ---I just looked at your original thread .. It doesn't seem you have a uvc, but you have something different. It looks like a uvc + JPAC in one device. It's the little device that is sitting on top of the PC, on the shelf. It's the one that looks like it has an orange fuse from a car. Can you provide more pictures of it? --- End quote --- --- Quote from: Yenome on August 11, 2012, 04:34:01 am ---i never understood the appeal of systems like ultracade. personally i would rather just buy a mamed system and call it a day. people go nutz over those systems at the auction. --- End quote --- i am completely mesmerized by the ultracade system myself. joshua os has amazing boot time maybe its the os im more interested in though. at auctions? have you seen them sell? online im only seeing working machines going for 500/600 dollars? --- Quote from: paigeoliver on August 11, 2012, 01:06:39 am ---Out of work, and just had a baby. Otherwise I would have gladly shipped the chick a better spec PC and an ipac in exchange for the ultracade guts. --- End quote --- fixed! also, its really not about the better spec PC. i have computers and pieces with "better specs" sitting around my house i could put new guts in the machine i dont want to. new ideas thanks to: http://www.digitpress.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-132373.html anything else i miss that might have been pertinent? when im not as tired ill look over responses again. long day. |
| lilshawn:
the ultracade OS was a remarkable setup. basically a stripped down Linux, tailor made for the hardware. boot time is remarkable because it needn't load anything but what it needs. no bloat. don't need a fast system...the OS was basically nothing. but Dave pretty much nailed the OS by having it made custom. That's why people are having a hell of a time with the ultracade now that global has dropped the ball on the system all together. |
| icka:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on August 13, 2012, 11:57:46 pm ---the ultracade OS was a remarkable setup. basically a stripped down Linux, tailor made for the hardware. boot time is remarkable because it needn't load anything but what it needs. no bloat. don't need a fast system...the OS was basically nothing. but Dave pretty much nailed the OS by having it made custom. That's why people are having a hell of a time with the ultracade now that global has dropped the ball on the system all together. --- End quote --- yup, there are people with appropriate licensing that can generate codes but clearly you have to pay for their services. it's, i think impossible, to reinstall gamepacks and OS on your own since every code was individual to the mobo and software. i haven't found any other information going against what im saying here and ive been looking for a while now. if i started this project when those pictures where dated though... i probably wouldnt be running into this problem. if i could do a quick and easy mobo replacement everything might just work properly though. [edit] this may not work because a replacement mobo might generate a new code? which it may force me to put in? must do more research on this [/edit] |
| lilshawn:
I've heard if you install everything on the computer the codes where generated for, you can pull the drive...insert it into another computer....and have it work. Apparently the code only holds up the installation....it's not constantly checked like other software. once it's installed your'e good to go. Sounds like guys that are selling full ultracde hard drive installs are doing it this way |
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