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BETABRITE SCROLL SIGN IN ARCADE OS
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Chazz:
SUCCESS!!! 
Title works perfect!  Controls work perfect!   Looks amazing!  Thanks for all the hard work Silver!

(pics coming soon!)
Silver:
excellent glad to hear it - dis you have a 2 line display? does it use both?

I seem to recall changing the defaults to use all the lines (as it should not be an issue if its only 1 line) but can't quite remember....
Chazz:
Both lines on the sign work.  If the title is too large for one line it's split into two lines which looks very nice.  If the title fits on one line, then the title is on the top line, and the first line of the controls is on the second line, then the following controls show up using both lines.

I'll have some pics tonight (I hope) that will show what it looks like.

I'd still be interested in having the title of the game only on the first line while all other info scrolls vertically on the second line.

So what's in the future for this project?  Anything we can do with the History.dat file?  Sometimes there's some interesting trivia and info in there.

Thanks again!

Silver:
Ah good....

Well I'm happy to keep tweaking things as people request - also it looks like theres a strong possibility I may get my hands on a betabrite in the next couple of months... which will really help for adding/sorting out any issues with signs like yours.

I've got a couple of requests I'll be working on when I get time:

Add support for Crystalfontz LCD (in progress)
Adding ArcadeOS support to non-betabrite displays.
Adding option to NOT display the game name (only makes sense when you see the pics of the guy with a betabrite AND an LCD on his cab - very cool)
Adding support to control different lines independantly.

My main issue at the moment is time, and the fact that as this program was originally a quick and dirty app for my little old LCD, and I'm not the worlds best programer, the code is pretty messsy - its' half branched for each display, and half not. Works ok, but then gets really confusing when I try to tie in things like ArcadeOS output... that'll teach me...)
kenmelk:
ok I need help i cannot get my beta brite 1040 to work with MAMEWAH.  I used silvers directions to get all the files setup and they are all good, i have a full LCD file now.  I have used the MAMEWAH config tool to setup mamewah, and have my com port setup like this: 9600, even,4,1
I changed my MAMEWAH ini config file path to my LCD directory, and NOTHING...It is really frustrating me here!
Also silver, i have not forgotton you, i will get your sign out to you ASAP.

Thanks,
Ken
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