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| Hoagie_one:
I remmeber someone mentioning that they wanted to hook up a backlit color lcd marquee that changed to the current game playing in mame. Anyone remember this and who was thinking aobut it? Any ideas on how to do this? |
| Sephroth57:
yeah i remember, i think they were trying to display the controls/instructions for the game when you started it. Im curious about this also, but too lazy to search, someone go find it quick ! =P |
| oldsage:
--- Quote from: Sephroth57 on January 17, 2005, 01:38:08 pm ---yeah i remember, i think they were trying to display the controls/instructions for the game when you started it. I'm curious about this also, but too lazy to search, someone go find it quick ! =P --- End quote --- Sounds intresting... I thought about doing something similar, but i don't have a clue how to do it so i forgot about it... Could be nice to see how someone else did it... |
| GGKoul:
The LAME project died a long time ago.... |
| Corporate Dog:
Upon reading the description of this project, I was hit with some inspiration to maybe try something like this on a smaller/less ambitious scale with my future cab. I still intend to do a traditional marquee, but I REALLY like the idea of a dynamic, LCD-based controller configuration diagram. One way to do it would be with a hacked Palm Pilot, which I could imbed in my control panel. Some of the older Palms can be had for a song these days... all you'd need to do is solder in a constant power supply, hook it up to your PC with a standard sync cable, and then install THIS on it... http://palmorb.sourceforge.net/index.html ... along with some fairly simple custom software to send the appropriate CP configuration data. You could also do the same thing with some custom software and a standard serial/USB LCD module if you don't have a spare Palm Pilot lying around (I like this particular company and its products, though I have no idea whether or not they're the cheapest: http://www.crystalfontz.com). Of course, with the LCD and Pilot/PalmOrb combo solutions, you're still limited in what you can display (text, mostly). In the end, I think I'm going to write a slightly more complex software solution, which would push a bitmap image to my Palm over the connection cable, and then force it to display (totally foregoing any kind of LCD emulation scheme). Regards, Corporate Dog |
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