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BlinKY1337

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Would this be possible
« on: July 07, 2006, 02:50:23 pm »
Would it be possible to fabricate an lcd screen 4 or 6 inches right into the control pannel and have it display controls for the game ?

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Re: Would this be possible
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2006, 02:57:24 pm »
There is a thread on here doing something similar to that (just not on the CP).
But I can't seem to find it..... had something to do with running dual monitors, etc.
They had the game controls displaying on a seperate screen.

Found this one.. but not the one I was thinking of.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=17856.0

I saw one with a small full color tft type lcd somewhere. (gameboy screen I think)
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Re: Would this be possible
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2006, 04:09:35 pm »
I was thinking more lke displaying a cpviewer or johny5 type in the screen and that it stays there during the duration of the game play i think itd be nice to have a lil quick refrence built right in :)

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Re: Would this be possible
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2006, 04:45:31 pm »
Yeah, I know what ya mean.....just couldn't find the thread on the one that I was reading up on awhile back.  Keep searching, I'm sure it's still around.
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Re: Would this be possible
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2006, 10:45:48 pm »
Yeah.... I was looking at that one again earlier..... that is just plain awesome.

But I could swear somebody did one with a small one and had it right below the main screen similar to the first one I posted about.  :banghead:

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Re: Would this be possible
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2006, 11:02:58 pm »
Ahhh  :censored: . . . . Kremmit was right . . . . and I just kept skipping right passed the part I was thinking about.
It's all in there....





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Re: Would this be possible
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2006, 11:43:11 am »
One possible hack, would be to embed a color Palm Pilot in your CP.   They're cheap, programmable and can communicate with a serial interface.  Here is one Palm hack that might be interesting.