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Yenome:
not bad idea im behind the thought of a universal system for mame systems. coming from the days of dos id rather see a pretty boot screen than the txt flying. course you should be able to hide that flying txt as well with a loader no? im not much on the linux train. course you want the shortest and fastest load time nothing compares to coinops in an xbox 4 sec boot time and you can change the M$ load screen to anything you want. i would like a better pic of the board and usb drive.

IzidorM:
eldiau:
I think the image will not be of any use to you, because it is build around my frontend :) So the image is without any desktop system... You need to know how to work in the linux terminal to change major things :) A.t.m. only games for those 4 emulators can be added simply... For anything else, you need the whole build system for building the usb boot image. But for that I still didn't write any docs :(   

Yenome:
Yes, it is possible to cover it with an image of your choice. I had this feature, but it was removed, because I had some problems with it (was to lazy to fix it :D) This is the board in the pic:
https://www.olimex.com/Products/ARM/NXP/LPC-P1343/
It is a development prototype board from olimex. I used an easy to get hardware, so anybody can get it. To flash it with my firmware (and transform it to keyboard encoder), you just need an usb cable :)
 
I will write a little bit more about how things work next week, I am a little bit busy at the moment. The fun part is the "keyboard encoder", which is basically an general purpose input/(output) device. It works different as the solutions you use today. The hardware is just reading and processing buttons, whole "brain" of the keyboard encoder is implemented on the pc as an userspace program :) This is a big feature, because you can process information about button presses/releases before you send them to the program expecting them (frontend/emulator...). You can, instead of just translating buttons to keycodes, write a script for some buttons (binding your favorite streetfighter combo to just 1 button, measuring the time button was pressed, ...) and this all can be reconfigured on the fly :) It is simple to extend/ this and make some pins as outputs so you can drive leds with them...

Well the only problem is that this only works on linux based system ;)

eldiau:

--- Quote from: IzidorM on January 24, 2013, 07:02:00 pm ---eldiau:
I think the image will not be of any use to you, because it is build around my frontend :) So the image is without any desktop system... You need to know how to work in the linux terminal to change major things :) A.t.m. only games for those 4 emulators can be added simply... For anything else, you need the whole build system for building the usb boot image. But for that I still didn't write any docs :(   

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After more than 12 years working as a linux system administrator and developer I assure you I'm quite used to work on the terminal  ;) ! Never mind when I'll have time I'll work on a Tiny Core or LFS custom image...

Yenome:
now if only we had a simple pci card that had a bios img that would boot right into a FE and let you use the full power of the pc to play the games. pretty much turning any pc into a console.

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