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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

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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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