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| DaOld Man:
I just tried startcom on my desktop, which has been upgraded to Win10 recently. I had no trouble running the configurator to set up startcom however there does seem to be a problem with the saving of the ini file when you quit the configurator. If no ini file exists, it is saving the default entries, but if you change the defaults to anything else, they are not being saved. Im sure it has something to do with win10, maybe it ha something to do with permissions? Anyway, if you have trouble like this, just open the startcom.ini file and edit it with notepad. (The ini file will be created with defaults on first run of the configurator.) Please let me know if you have this problem, when I get some free time I will need to re-open this project and find out what is going on. The reason I had no trouble running configurator may be due to this PC being upgraded from win7, and I probably already registered the comdlg32.ocx file. |
| raph:
I will test it out when I get back home on Monday night and let you know what I find. Thanks for your help! |
| BorgDog:
I'm a little late to the party, but I just used an old 5V 2A wall wart I had lying around from something to power the servo in my Little Bastard. I would have used the computer power supply, but I used a tablet so had none... well actually it has a 5V wall wart as well, but decided to not double them up. |
| raph:
I have successfully mounted the hub shaft on a VESA adapter plate, and thence that the monitor; mounted the bearing to the back panel and put the shaft through it; routed out the back of the board and mounted the servo to the hub shaft and the board, and run batch files to move the monitor around. In short: it kinda works! But... - The servo buzzes quite loudly. Seems like it is fighting to keep the monitor level, I think I need to add a counterweight to it. If I park a screwdriver on the monitor edge, it balances perfectly, and goes silent. It also goes silent if I turn the servo off using the Pololu control software, but then instantly sags sideways slightly. :) Could also go to a bigger servo maybe? - I am running a variant of BorgDog's batch file with not only my custom parameters but also the acceleration and speed lowered down. With the monitor weight, overshoot and bouncing when it reaches the target happen unless I have the accel set to just 1. At 1 and a speed of 20, it's quite smooth. - Startcom calls the batch file. Seems to work in that launching Centipede versus Joust does indeed rotate the monitor. But I end up with Centipede (and Vectrex) upside-down even though counter-clockwise is correctly set as the turn direction. Doh. This was working correctly when I didn't use startcom and rotated by hand instead. I presume it's some combo of mala rotating, the emu's rotation, and startcom. - I also ended up with MAME backgrounded when startcom runs. Because i am calling a bat file maybe? Changing startcom to "launch and wait" seems to have fixed this. |
| raph:
Fixed the upside-down stuff. :) |
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