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| mccoy178:
Okay, two things: 1) Even after I exit the game, the name keeps showing up in the marquee. When a new game is selected, the name changes. Even after I exit mamewah, the name continues to show every so often. 2) Leaving spaces and adding effects in the beta brite software worked! Looks neat as the game appears a different way everytime. I don't want to talk about it! ( I see how much nicer your software is!) |
| Netcat:
Thanks for all your Hard work Sylver. I havent checked your latest version of LCDGen however For the Record my STATIC output Prefix is flawed. According to the BASIC Prog I stole the code from the first 20 characters should be CHR$(0) which are for autosensing The code I provided originally workes ONLY when a message had already been sent SUCCESFULLY to the sign previously (Therefore Autosensing ALREADY took place) Apologies for the misunderstanding. |
| MustardTent:
--- Quote from: Silver on August 16, 2005, 05:05:36 pm ---Ok - just 'cos I'm lazy (and the alpha protocol is a 15meg pdf text file!) what does the \n do? Once I get some control info going for Betabrite owners it would be good if people could have a play with various effects (if you know how) to see what looks best as I'll be doing this blind.... all this makes me want to get my hands on a betabrite myself...... --- End quote --- The \n will make the betabrite display the data in two chunks. |
| Silver:
--- Quote from: mccoy178 on August 16, 2005, 05:12:12 pm ---Okay, two things: 1) Even after I exit the game, the name keeps showing up in the marquee. When a new game is selected, the name changes. Even after I exit mamewah, the name continues to show every so often. 2) Leaving spaces and adding effects in the beta brite software worked! Looks neat as the game appears a different way everytime. I don't want to talk about it! ( I see how much nicer your software is!) --- End quote --- Mamewah has an option in one of it's ini's for a "default" display - one that is shown while browsing the menus. With a basic LCD (which is the info which I provided to Minwah when he kindly added LCD support) this is easy - just stick some text in the ini and it will Display ("Welcome to Mamwah. Choose Game" or whatever). You would need to add the control characters for this to work right with a betabrite I think. Its probably easiest to add another lcd file (default.lcd) or whatever - as I imagine its a very easy job for Minwah to add. I will email and ask him. re: your second point. I can add spaces/effects easily enough to my software. I also note that Betabrite protocol has a "random" control to make each text appear in a different manner.... --- Quote from: Netcat on August 16, 2005, 06:21:11 pm ---I havent checked your latest version of LCDGen however For the Record my STATIC output Prefix is flawed. According to the BASIC Prog I stole the code from the first 20 characters should be CHR$(0) which are for autosensing --- End quote --- Ah good I'm glad you confirmed that I was getting very confused why it was working with what you provided as according to the protocol it really shouldn't. Anyway, It's only the first 5 characters accorded to the protocol. I will try and base the next release off the protocol to see if that works ok. |
| Silver:
--- Quote from: pkurby1 on August 16, 2005, 06:35:39 pm ---The \n will make the betabrite display the data in two chunks. One before the \n, and one after. For example, if the data was "Road Blastersssssssssssssssssss", and the data had a \n between the two words, it would display "Road" in the middle of the sign, then the word "Blasterssssss" would appear at the right of the sign, and scroll left until the entire word has been displayed. Without the \n, the sign would display "Road Blasters" all at once, and then refresh the sign with updated colors (or whatever) and the same text. --- End quote --- ok. Well I can get it to add \n when the text is over a certain length (and this can be optional). How many characters long are these betabrites? --- Quote ---Silver, I can provide you with mpgs of the sign in action during different configurations. --- End quote --- Could be cool for others to see (and me!). I'll stick'em on my website if you like.... |
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