Arcade Collecting > Merit/JVL Touchscreen
Megatouch force software running on touchscreen pc ?
Ken Layton:
I'd be awfully careful here. Merit plays hardball with hacked/counterfeit boards & software. Their spies are everywhere.
M.Lanza:
It would be nice to find more information on how this is done. (if it "is" possible)
Even if the security check has been cracked, I kind of doubt that it would be possible to
play the megatouch software on an "off the shelf" pc without having some kind of program
running in the background that handles the sound and touchscreen controller drivers as well
as the coin mech / DBV interface.
Could it be possible to interface the I/O card with a certian "off the shelf" pc motherboard?
This would solve the problems listed above, but how would the motherboard's BIOS
boot the DOS / linux program stored on the flash memory of the I/O card?
I haven't found any info on the internet that shows anything like that would be possible.
If it is, then either the megatouch "scene" must be very small, or that Merit Industries must
be doing a very good job of supressing this type of information.
--- Quote from: Ken Layton on January 07, 2009, 01:07:51 pm ---I'd be awfully careful here. Merit plays hardball with hacked/counterfeit boards & software. Their spies are everywhere.
--- End quote ---
Perhaps it would be best to just wait a few more years for the hardware to become inexpensive enough
so that someone like me can upgrade without having to resort to counterfeit software.
Kevin Mullins:
--- Quote from: Paladin on January 07, 2009, 12:17:31 pm ---A little messing around and I now have Titanium running on my Megatouch off a compactflash card.
--- End quote ---
So does the CF just hold an upgrade or is it a complete drive?
(I'm curious due to harddrive size)
Paladin - Is the PC you tested your drive on Linux or Windows based ?
--- Quote from: gimp_hand on January 07, 2009, 01:22:45 pm ---Even if the security check has been cracked, I kind of doubt that it would be possible to
play the megatouch software on an "off the shelf" pc without having some kind of program running in the background that handles the sound and touchscreen controller drivers as well as the coin mech / DBV interface.
Could it be possible to interface the I/O card with a certian "off the shelf" pc motherboard?
--- End quote ---
Pretty sure alot of that is generic.... so if you have a sound card, your good.....if you have the right drivers for your particular touchscreen controller loaded, your good. Really it's just a matter of the software itself running properly.
DBV's are typically some form of serial interface, so once again the software may cover that as well.
I haven't really played with the idea much, but from the hardware I've seen.....there's not much special going on there. Not really certain of what the security chip is actually being checked against, so can't say much on that either. But I see people selling replacement harddrives and such for these all the time, so they are either cracked in some fashion or there is nothing on there to bounce a security check against anything to begin with.
Makes me wonder now though, I have an Touchmaster Infinity to play with....hmmmm.
And like Ken mentioned.... Merit and other like them don't play around. It might as well be casino equipment..... it's that tight.
Paladin:
Well maybe I should just shut up, I'm starting to get spooked......
Paladin:
I found the Flickr site of the guy with the Force game.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22398235@N02/
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