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Golden Tee Betabrite LED Ticker display. PC Connect Software......Help
Marky_1979:
Any update guys? im seriously thinking of getting one of the led displays used on that juke box any ideas where they are from? plus do they do a size similar to the golden tee one which we have
MonMotha:
I recently moved (to a house with a basement - oh yeah arcade space!), so I haven't had time to really even look at this beyond tracing out some parts of their PCB. I'm still torn between building my own hardware and just writing software for their board. Their board has a fair bit of useful hardware on it, but obviously if I cook up my own hardware, I know how to program it better.
Marky_1979:
If you work something out let me know dude as my cab has a wacking big space above the marquee that id love to fill with an led display of some kind.
Numbski:
--- Quote from: Ken Layton on February 27, 2008, 11:37:21 am ---If I remember correctly, Incredible Technologies put a custom burned eprom into the LED display unit. This prevents communication with any other devices except certain Incredible Technologies boardsets.
I believe if you contact the display manufacturer and get the stock generic eprom (pre programmed) from them instead of Incredible Technologies, then you can interface anything.
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I'll do you one better. Motorola makes some pretty nice LED interface chips. Nab one of those and an arduino board and I'll bet you're golden. One such chip I'm aware of, because I'm currently reverse-engineering a board that uses it is the Motorola MC14489BDWE. Data Sheet: http://www.freescale.com/files/timing_interconnect_access/doc/inactive/MC14489B.pdf
Of course, if there's an EPROM floating around out there that already handles the interface and just lets you send serial commands, go for it. This isn't a terrible fallback though. :)
MonMotha:
That's what I'm likely to do at this point, though it's not quite that simple. There are two boards in that box: one is the control board which I'm likely to not use; the other is the board with all the LED matrices on it. This already has most of what you need to drive the LEDs set up as a couple of big shift registers. This would be perfect for using the SPI controller on, but it's two chains sharing the same clock. I can rig up a nifty little thing on a 9572 or similar to make it work pretty easily. Then you just need something to switch the high side (either a PNP or P-channel FET) and scan away.
I'll get around to it one of these days. I've actually been attempting to PLAY some of the several games in my basement, rather than hack on them, for a change.