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Programming Frontend in Visual Basic -examples?
Howard_Casto:
Yeah it's way simplier in vb but as i said, forget about it in 2000/xp.
SirPoonga:
no, you don't need to modify mame!!
My FE could probably do it when it comes out!
I plan on putting a relay on my serial port. I found a commercial one that is programmable.
You;d have to make your own frontend. You can get if the game is a vertical from one of the -list (-listdetails I think) from mame's commandline. If it is verical send a signal to the serial relay to rotat monitor vertically. Same with horizontal. But switch it when you select a game in the FE.
I am using it to control a qbert knocker sometime in the future. I need to modify mame since that is an in game thing.
http://www.weedtech.com/Ask the company if this works in XP. I'm using 98 so it will be easy for me.
Carsten Carlos:
Thanx all!
Guess I'll start with the electronics-side. The solid-state-relay-PCB looks good, but I'll try to make something on my own, their PCB is quite expensive, as I wouldn't need all the features it offers.
--- Quote ---My FE could probably do it when it comes out!
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Keep us informed, I can't do anything on my own ;)
I still got a motor-pcb lying around here that was supposed for my rotating mount, maybe I can found out how it shall work by drawing the circuits.
For a start, I'll deal with a simple pushbutton that I just need to trigger, so that it's easy to interface it later.
--- Quote ---This version of MAME announces what game it's running when you start it for use with things like LED marquees. It does this by Captioning the window with the romset name.
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Great, this was helpful! Thanx, you nearly made a completed program-code in your long posting ;D
--- Quote ---(tricky to do, are you good with electronics?
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Sort of, I'm a radio/tv-technician, well, used to be, now I'm working in a printing job, especially with plotters and things like that. Although I'm not so good as this guy who worked formerly at Disney's and repaired their arcade-machines, he got these great circuits designed also for the degaussing (you must make some protections, if you fire the coil to often it'll burn up) thing, I'll have to print these and think about it how it is supposed to work.
Is the degaussing coil easy unpluggable on the WG? I wouldn't like to void my warranty by doing soldering work on a brandnew monitor!
Frobozz:
--- Quote ---Yeah it's way simplier in vb but as i said, forget about it in 2000/xp.
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Bah, I find it hard to believe there doesn't exist a single simple parallel port OCX out there that doesn't work with the NT core.
I even remember one that installs a fake printer driver to get it to work.
(You set it as the Printer object, and use:
Print "A", "B", "C"...
in VB for your pins.
I think the "Printer.Resolution" seting was for timing or something. Was kinda weird.
Gotta re-find that one :) )
SirPoonga:
--- Quote ---Thanx all!
Keep us informed, I can't do anything on my own ;)
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I said it could be done, but I probably won't do that as I don;t need it! My FE is being made for me, I will release it to the public if ya want to try it (like PartyOn).
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I still got a motor-pcb lying around here that was supposed for my rotating mount, maybe I can found out how it shall work by drawing the circuits.
For a start, I'll deal with a simple pushbutton that I just need to trigger, so that it's easy to interface it later.
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If oyu make it with a single button it wouldn't be hard to hook it up to a relay that is controlls the switch.
Many examples out there
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Bill_Bowden/page6.htm
http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/parallel_output.html
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