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PinMame can now communicate with a REAL pinball!
Reg:
Hi, thanks for your comments ...
I have tried to give a bit more details of what this thing does in our WebPage.
Basically a guy was too tired to fix all the time his real pinball.
So he have taugth that by using a program named PinMame (it a program that simulate pinball hardware in a regular PC), he can replace the faulty pinball electronics and instead rely on a PC to make the broken pinball work like a new one.
The problem was PinMame is not made to communicate to a real pinball, it is just simulating one in your Pc, so there are the concepts of virtual lamps, virtual display, and virtual solenoids.
So this guy have modified PinMame, so no it can now talk not to vitual device but infact talk to REAL Lamps, REAL Solenoils through the parallel printer port.
The electronics is there to permit the PC to talk to a REAL pinball.
Note this electronic shematics can be simplified... we have found a single IC that can replace 8 transistors to drive the lamps.
thanks
Regis
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on April 28, 2004, 02:33:00 am ---This is so complex that I don't even know what it means? ???
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Lilwolf:
btw...
http://www.allteksystems.com/
sells a board to do this already. But its around 200 bucks... but a little more plug - n - play...
Reg:
Hi,
This card (http://www.allteksystems.com/) only replace the MPU.
The project that we are doing me and Brado426 is more bigger.
PinMame emulate most pinball, so in theory we can interface a PC to any pinball.
To illustrate, if you find a pinball like this one, at a very very cheap price,
like this person have found this pinball for just $35!:
http://www.beercade.com/pinball/strikesspares/strikesspares.htm
As you can see most of the eletronics of this pinball are missing...
But with our project this pinball can work like it have all the electronics
that are currently missing.
Beause PinMame can emulate all those electronics,
and because PinMame can communicate directly to a pinball with our cheap
interface, this pinball will work like a new for a very very low cost.
thanks
Regis
--- Quote from: Lilwolf on April 28, 2004, 11:17:00 am ---btw...
http://www.allteksystems.com/
sells a board to do this already. But its around 200 bucks... but a little more plug - n - play...
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Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: Reg on April 28, 2004, 02:15:35 pm ---...is more bigger.
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"more bigger" and using "smelt" for a past tense of smell, are my girl friend's most bigger pet peeves. So I say them whenever I can.
I figured you'd all want to know that.
;D
Reg:
Sorry,
Bbut I'm a french speaking person...
so I try to be as much precise that I can.
thanks anyway for your input.
Reg
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on April 28, 2004, 03:03:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: Reg on April 28, 2004, 02:15:35 pm ---...is more bigger.
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"more bigger" and using "smelt" for a past tense of smell, are my girl friend's most bigger pet peeves. So I say them whenever I can.
I figured you'd all want to know that.
;D
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