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| Lilwolf:
The driver to the light board? That should be seperate... but if you can figure it out... it probably should be a real windows driver. Then you don't have to worry about access to the ports in XP |
| gl.tter:
--- Quote from: Lilwolf on April 28, 2005, 11:19:24 am ---The driver to the light board? --- End quote --- Yes. --- Quote from: Lilwolf on April 28, 2005, 11:19:24 am ---That should be seperate... but if you can figure it out... it probably should be a real windows driver. --- End quote --- |
| gl.tter:
BTW, speaking of parallel port access, when I was trying to get my old pport LEDs working on my Win98SE machine (which runs Mame), I kept getting all kinds of signals on the parallel port that I couldn't account for. Turns out the Act Labs GS driver (the gameport version) is constantly sending data to the parallel port! |
| RayB:
--- Quote from: gl.tter on April 28, 2005, 10:03:42 am --- --- Quote from: jdjuggler on April 28, 2005, 09:48:02 am ---For the P1/P2 blinking when ready - Let's say 2 credits are added P1/P2 both blink and the player presses P1 start. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- |
| gl.tter:
--- Quote from: RayB on April 28, 2005, 12:06:28 pm ---Most games that support "buy-in" will flash an "insert coin" even during gameplay. Upon credit, it changes that message to "Press Start" (for games where you can join in any time). Maybe you can monitor the addresses related to those messages. --- End quote --- That's an option. I'm not sure which way to go yet. Can anybody think of games that support buy-in's, but don't have some kind of message on the screen? A 'game has started' signal might be useful anyway, so maybe that's the way to go (one less address to figure out). --- Quote from: RayB on April 28, 2005, 12:06:28 pm ---As to what to do with the lights during a game... How about imitating what Atari did (for starters). What do they do when you have credits in the machine, but are playing? Does it stop flashing but stay on? Or does it stay off? Or does it keep flashing? --- End quote --- Not sure - anybody? As I said, one option is to make this configurable, so you could choose which you prefer yourself. |
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