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"Touched in the Head" Touchscreen Bartop
MTPPC:
Thanks for the video, Paladin. Did you consider MAME megatouch or touchmaster games on it?
Paladin:
At the time I made it I also had 3 or 4 real Megatouch XL setups that I got cheap and was playing with. I kind of got tired of messing with them and never really thought about running them in the cab. I mainly use it for a jukebox while I'm working on stuff in the arcade.
I might look into it in the future though.
Megatouch build from my website (sold, then broke after a few months. Possibly heat related failure.)
http://home.comcast.net/~dark.paladin/megatouch
TalkingBull:
I built a really ugly touchscreen system a few years ago with GameEx as a frontend. It works for the most part but I would prefer something simpler. I would love to put some megatouch games on there but could never find any...
MTPPC:
I have learned that the touchscreen seems to work best with most games by activating mouse button 1 on release instead of when you first touch the screen.
I'm just about done working on software for this project. I installed Bejeweled Twist and Masque's IGT Little green men slots. I found a version of MAME that was compiled with no nag screens and replaced my old MAME. I'm running Megatouch 2,3,4,5 and Touchmaster 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 7000 and 8000. Some shooting games T2:judgement day, Point Blank, Point Blank2, Clay pigeon, Operation Wolf, Space Gun, Turkey Hunting and a couple more I can't remember off the top of my head. The turkey hunting game has a little calibration problem, but it's close enough. On my original .143 version of MAME, the megatouch solitaire games would mess up when you cleared a column. My hacked .146 version doesn't do this so all those bar games are loading and running perfectly as far as I can tell.
The final jukebox is DWjukebox with a really nice skin called woodcabbox. I especially like this skin because it has the radio and exit buttons:
MTPPC:
I got a nice 15" Elo LCD USB touchscreen implemented today. It wouldn't register mouse clicks on liftoff, so I had to set it to run like a conventional mouse. Because of this, crossbow and clay pigeon had to come out of the lineup. On the plus side, all the angry birds games are now in the lineup.
I was mistaken earlier about the touchmaster solitaire games being fixed. They still exhibit the same bug where they glitch out when you clear a column. At this point, I'm ready to start on the actual cabinet design.
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