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icka:

--- Quote from: MacGyver on August 09, 2012, 03:34:02 pm ---running some Linux OS named JoshuaOS, so you may get lucky just plugging those control interfaces into a normal MB.


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from my understanding joshua os is not a linux os

from davidrfoley himself: "Adrian started a new company called Joshua Technology, and the OS became the Joshua OS.  Over the years we contracted with Adrian to work on enhancing the OS to add new features and hired him as well to do contract programming on the UltraCade product.    The OS was very purpose built, and only had the most essential of features in order to keep it small and fast.  It supported several iterations of the Intel chipset family, including the 810, 815 and later the 845.  Adrian did some work with the Via chipsets, but we could never get the technical information needed to fully support it.  He also did some work wiht a few other graphics chips.  Besides the UltraCade platform, which ran solely on the Joshua Operating System, Adrian also was contracted by a company that was doing a visual device that was fitted to tanks for spotting land mines.  The indeed used the Joshua OS and originally used Graphite computers in testing.  This product was deployed by the US Military and Adrian even went into the field to see it implemented."

just interesting, i guess.

tkeahi:
The pc to JAMMA interface in your ultracade cab now is called a usblinx and it will work just fine with MAME or with another computer. It is a non-programmable keyboard encoder:

http://retroblast.arcadecontrols.com/reviews/Ultracade_USB%20Linx-04242006-01.html
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