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Aceldamor:


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--- Quote from: Aceldamor on April 05, 2004, 09:20:38 pm ---One question though...I am probably going to get flamed for asking, but the link to the actual LCD dosen't say anything about a serial cable, do you have to make one yourself or am I just retarded and don't see it.

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I had to make my own cable for my particular LCD.  If I were using Windows XP, I could have used a standard straight-through serial cable, but since I'm using DOS, I had to make my own...

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Can you post some pics of the interface between your pc and the LCD screen? That seems to be a pretty cool LCD screen for the money..

Howard_Casto:

Very cool.... you are our first third-party developer.

If you wish feel free to mention your project on fe.donkeyfly.com and we'll sticky it.  

maraxle:


--- Quote from: Aceldamor on April 05, 2004, 11:37:19 pm ---Can you post some pics of the interface between your pc and the LCD screen? That seems to be a pretty cool LCD screen for the money..

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Unfortunately, I already enclosed it in a housing, but the cable is a 9 pin serial cable that allows pins 2, 3, and 5 to go straight through, connects pins 1, 4, and 6 together on the PC end, and connects 7 and 8 together on the PC end.  Pin 9 is unused.  The reason for connecting the pins together on the PC end is to ensure that it always has a DSR/DTR signal and a CTS/RTS signal.  This is not necessary on XP, however, as it appears to be more forgiving of the serial communications standards than DOS and Win98 are...

Here's a link to an auction for the exact LCD and controller chip that I bought.  Actually, this is the same guy I bought mine from too.  Excellent price at only $19.99 plus shipping...

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: maraxle on April 05, 2004, 07:41:05 am ---My understanding of the controls.dat project is that they're looking for the official button labels, as printed on the original control panel overlays.  Mine definitely aren't official.  I just go through, hit each button a couple of times and try to figure out what they do.  Then I make up a label that matches what I think it's doing, and is 24 characters or less (the width of my lcd screen).

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Neat project.  Not to be a pain, but is there any chance you could post the text files for the games that were NOT in controls.dat.  The people building the controls.dat file might be able to tell what the actual labels said and this would save repeating your steps of playing the game and guessing what the button does . . .


maraxle:


--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on April 06, 2004, 08:11:38 am ---Neat project.  Not to be a pain, but is there any chance you could post the text files for the games that were NOT in controls.dat.  The people building the controls.dat file might be able to tell what the actual labels said and this would save repeating your steps of playing the game and guessing what the button does . . .

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Unfortunately, in a bunch of games I am remapping the buttons so they "feel" better on my particular control panel.  That would make my text files pretty much useless to anyone else.  The LCD file generator program uses controls.dat as a resource, but isn't much help in adding to the project, at least in its current state.

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