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Anyonw know what happend to the LCD Marquee display project
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Lilwolf:
The idea is that you use the other computer 100% for control.  Basically your mame machine stores mame and roms...  And it runs a very small program that will kill the current mame... and then launch another... But it could/would also have  a web browser on it (depending if its web based or running an application on the controller)

Then on the second computer / web interface would then have the graphics / snaps similar to any frontend you see.  And when you launch a game, instead of running it locally, it would launch it on the other computer.  Then that machine could then show moves, hints, ect... MP3 player... ect...

So, if you have one of those small web based boxes...  You hack it to your cabinet... and use it to control the cabinet itself... but you could also use any computer that has access to the web, or that has a java jvm on it.  Just makes it so you aren't writing code that will only work on one device.
Trimoor:

--- Quote from: Lilwolf on February 15, 2005, 09:05:35 am ---But I think the trouble was nobody wanted to hack another video to their cabinet...

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I beg to differ.  I put dual monitors in my MAME cab, and have nothing to drive them with.
tetsujin:

--- Quote from: Lilwolf on February 15, 2005, 01:33:31 pm ---The idea is that you use the other computer 100% for control.  Basically your mame machine stores mame and roms...  And it runs a very small program that will kill the current mame... and then launch another... But it could/would also have  a web browser on it (depending if its web based or running an application on the controller)

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I guess.  It just seems simpler to me to run all the important software on the one good computer...  and since the cheapy computer is just being used as an extra display, make it exactly that - an extra display.  If I were to do something like this with my iOpener, I'd want to keep its responsibilities extremely limited.  There's not much that machine can really do...  Java sounds like a bad idea for such a machine.

Though on the other hand, running the entire front-end on the monkey computer would save the monkey computer the trouble of having to communicate UI requests over the network...  I don't know.  Either way could work.  But I don't really want the front-end to be on the secondary display anyway.
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