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| J_K_M_A_N:
--- Quote from: 10yard on May 10, 2022, 08:57:55 am --- --- Quote from: Gilrock on May 10, 2022, 08:47:16 am ---Nice job on Kong. I just bought an original Donkey Kong cab on Thursday so I'm re-learning how to play. --- End quote --- Fantastic Gilrock! I'd love to have an original cabinet one day. I play a bit on MAME and targeting 500K, current best is 309K. What condition is your machine in? Have you posted any pics? --- End quote --- Nice! My high is 309,900. That is without going nuts on the first round going for points. I need to learn that strategy. This is a very cool project. I will have to try and get this working on my bartop machine. J_K_M_A_N |
| 10yard:
--- Quote from: pbj on June 02, 2022, 05:44:06 pm ---This is nuts. Well done, man. Now... to get it working on a real vector monitor? --- End quote --- Thanks man! There's a project to build MAME to output to a vector monitor via a Pi or teensy - https://trmm.net/MAME/ . Interesting reading. I'd be tempted to look into it if I could get a cheap vector monitor or a Vectrex. |
| 10yard:
--- Quote from: J_K_M_A_N on June 02, 2022, 06:13:01 pm --- --- Quote from: 10yard on May 10, 2022, 08:57:55 am --- --- Quote from: Gilrock on May 10, 2022, 08:47:16 am ---Nice job on Kong. I just bought an original Donkey Kong cab on Thursday so I'm re-learning how to play. --- End quote --- Fantastic Gilrock! I'd love to have an original cabinet one day. I play a bit on MAME and targeting 500K, current best is 309K. What condition is your machine in? Have you posted any pics? --- End quote --- Nice! My high is 309,900. That is without going nuts on the first round going for points. I need to learn that strategy. This is a very cool project. I will have to try and get this working on my bartop machine. J_K_M_A_N --- End quote --- Cool, it'd be good to see this running on your bartop. Shout if you need help with setting things up. |
| gtoal:
Do you have plans to port this to a real vector display? Either an arcade cabinet or the Vectrex? Clearly not 6809-native on the Vectrex, but is there any chance it could run under a modified emulator on a Pitrex driving the Vectrex display? We appreciate the effort to get the look right, but it's pretty meaningless unless real vector hardware can keep up, and the Vectrex can't drive its display as fast as say a Starwars cabinet. |
| 10yard:
--- Quote from: gtoal on June 03, 2022, 09:00:30 pm ---Do you have plans to port this to a real vector display? Either an arcade cabinet or the Vectrex? Clearly not 6809-native on the Vectrex, but is there any chance it could run under a modified emulator on a Pitrex driving the Vectrex display? We appreciate the effort to get the look right, but it's pretty meaningless unless real vector hardware can keep up, and the Vectrex can't drive its display as fast as say a Starwars cabinet. --- End quote --- If I can get my hands on a Vectrex or vector display then I will take a look. A custom MAME running off Raspberry Pi such as the link I posted above would be my first port of call. I’ve never looked into vector display interfaces so it’d be an interesting project for sure. Outside of vector displays, this plug-in enables high resolution scaling without pixelation. The functions could be adapted to other classic arcade games. |
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