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| bobbyb13:
--- Quote from: nitrogen_widget on March 21, 2020, 02:58:37 pm --- --- Quote from: bobbyb13 on March 19, 2020, 03:49:52 am ---My head still spins about the speed at which all this hardware can function. Learning how a crt works as a result of this hobby has made me even more amazed at the whole thing in general. Never even mind the concept of overlaying instances of separate functions on the same screen and keeping that together. Whoa --- End quote --- most of it is 2d graphics. most 4 output video cards from the last 5 yrs that can play fortenite on medium could handle that. if they were using shaders to emulate a CRT for the game portion of the screen..maybe you'd need more horsepower but it looks like they are just maintaining aspect using mame layouts. people did that with one monitor on the rpi3. --- End quote --- The stuff I see looking over my son's shoulder while he is playing Nintendo Switch just blows my mind, but stunning me maybe isn't really that hard. My last exercises in programming were Fortran 77 in my freshman year of college. If not for the genius of others I wouldn't be pulling off any of this- I think that control panel graphics changing on a per game basis would be even more useful than any of the other very cool ways people have integrated original artwork into/onto cabinets (marquee, bezel, side art, etc.) using LCD Of course it needs to be done well (I feel like this machine is hardly a proof of concept piece in that way.) And in that way, the MTV theory doesn't apply here- because sometimes too much is... too much! |
| Howard_Casto:
Yeah if it were low level programming it'd be impressive, but with a modern high level language like c++ displaying graphics on multiple monitors can be done with a graphics library and a few lines of code. Of course the trade off is there's a lot more bloat in terms of resources used but on a fairly new pc it's no big deal. I don't even think they wrote a custom front-end.... looks suspiciously like hyprepin/hyperspin to me. |
| DaOld Man:
:o |
| opt2not:
Multiple LCD’s is the new LED lighting. Builders these days are more about bling than they are about building a playable/comfortable cab. All that matters to these people is how “cool” their cabs look in their man cave. Playability be damned. |
| NiN^_^NiN:
Easiest way I can see this working is the LCD is a touch screen and the buttons are modified to touch the screen as a touch screen. Can have arcade and joystick sit ont he LCD and it just touches the area when pressed or shifted. I'm sure your seen this on mobile phones those suction cup joysticks and buttons that sit over touchscreen controls. The other option is a pico projector below the control panel that will display the image from below the only downside is you will see a wire coming from the joystick and the buttons no matter how thin you make it going to the edges. I like the idea and in theory if you have the button for touch screen move around you could have original layouts and move the buttons into place and the spare buttons to the side |
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