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Auto CP Filtering
Yarb:
How would you set up a front end (Emulaxian or Lazarus) to automatically filter the ROM list. What I want to do is set some switches in my cab that are pressed in certain combinations by tabs on the CP. That way it would automatically list only games that work with the installed CP. I
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--- Quote from: Yarb on August 21, 2002, 11:28:25 am ---
How would you set up a front end (Emulaxian or Lazarus) to automatically filter the ROM list. What I want to do is set some switches in my cab that are pressed in certain combinations by tabs on the CP. That way it would automatically list only games that work with the installed CP. I
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Howard_Casto:
That's a bad idea (although I think lilwolf is toying with it.) If the i-pac has a stuck key it pitches a fit like any normal keyboard does..... I've even had a shorted wire on my ipac lock up my machine before.
The next release of lazarus will have new filter options which allow you to filter a list by control panel type and screen/driver type though, so that should be helpful.
Yarb:
What I'm trying to do is auto-sense the CP and had thought to use 3 switches to give the possibility of 7 CP's (Plan on 3-4 eventually). Since I am in the printer industry I was thinking of using the paper size board of an old LaserJet II but if I can't run it through the I-Pac I
Random24:
To bad you didn't go with a MK64. It already has the ability to use some inputs as ID bits which can be read by software.