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Netcat:
OK SO now I have Mamewah Displaying a nice

"Welcome to MameWah" as soon as I start the program

NICE !!!

I am having a b..... of a time getting the LCD file right


Latest version of LCDGEN states Betabrite support but it doesnt appear to be working or maybe I';m doing something wrong.

Even tryed cutting and pasting the necessary SCROLL HEADER & SCROLL ENDER

I suspect the characters are getting messed up with the CUT & PASTE functions


SILVER

could you please checkl out the Header and footer information on the following two files, THSE WORK just by sending them to the COM port.

http://www.780tech.com/betabrite/simple.txt
http://www.780tech.com/betabrite/complex.txt

If these files are edited with wordpad or notepad they stop working (use MS WORD or EDIT command)

Is it possible to modify LCDGEN to provide an option to ONLY output the game name with the proper HEADER AND FOOTER tagged before and after text
Netcat:
OK GUYS BREAKING NEWS.

The sign is now FULLY functional within Mamewah

Could not manage for the life of me to make LCDGEN do the generate proper characters

Developped a litle application in Quickbasic that generates the gamelist, extracts the names & descriptions, creates the LCD directory, creates the files containing Betabrite compatible commands enclosing the description of each game


Pleas evisit my site www.780tech.com/betabrite to download application

Regards.

Tony

NOTE: I would still rather do this from ArcadeOS, anyone know how to modify C code ?
mccoy178:
Wonderful, wonderful news! :o  This takes the idea of the sign to a whole new level.  As soon as I start to work on this, I will have a million questions.  What a wonderful thing this is.  Thanks for the hard work! ;D
Silver:
Hi Sorry Betabrite support is listed but not fully functional in the version available to download..... The header/ender boxes will not easily support non-printable ASCII characters which is what the alpha protcol use (and are in the txt files you printed). Notepad/Wordpad do not fully support these and tend to convert them to something else - hence they stop working.

Theres no reason I can't change LCDgen to create any output you want - the issue so far is that I don't have a betabrite to test, and although I have the full alpha protocol documentation, its clearly overkill for what we want.

you seem to known the exact ASCII characters you want (seeing as you can generate the text files above) can you post them/pm them to me? eg ASCII 10,15,25,13 "TEXT" ASCII 10,13 or whatever.
Netcat:
The corrsponding ASCII characters that display a UNICOLOR, STATIC output
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PREFIX
CHR$(112)+CHR$(81)+CHR$(232)+CHR$(192)+CHR$(143)+CHR$(156)+CHR$(197)+CHR$(1)+CHR$(88)+CHR$(120)+CHR$(181)+CHR$(1)+CHR$(1)+CHR$(90)+CHR$(48)+CHR$(48)+CHR$(2)+CHR$(65)+CHR$(65)+CHR$(27)+CHR$(32)+CHR$(98)

SUFIX
CHR$(4)
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The corrsponding ASCII characters that display a MULTICOLOR, DYNAMIC output
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PREFIX
CHR$(112)+CHR$(81)+CHR$(232)+CHR$(192)+CHR$(143)+CHR$(156)+CHR$(197)+CHR$(1)+CHR$(88)+CHR$(120)+CHR$(181)+CHR$(1)+CHR$(1)+CHR$(90)+CHR$(48)+CHR$(48)+CHR$(2)+CHR$(65)+CHR$(65)

SUFIX
CHR$(4)+CHR$(114)+CHR$(14)+CHR$(64)+CHR$(27)+CHR$(8)
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