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What country are you from? I would be interested in the Angelina guts ( mobo, ioboard, ect...ect )

So i didnt had the time to test whether the amps were working correctly or not, today I did that, turns out my pinout was somehow wrong. If you look at the picture, you can see, there are 4 audio outlets and 1 ground, thats left right for amp 1, and left right for amp 2, ground is shared. They work nice and sound great, although I don't like that when I turn the PC on, theres a pop sound on the speaker as the USB audio interface turns on and of several times. Il see if I can find a work around for that.
Im also waiting for  local currency bill acceptor that I bought to see if I can make it fit in there without to much modification on the outside. Also I did send out the acceptors I had to a company that will update them with 2018 pulse firmware, he said and I quote.

The PULSE protocol was only included with our V6 (Vending) models, per Touchtunes' request to support their older legacy jukeboxes. Since 2018, TT no longer supports these older legacy configurations and have since then removed that interface from the V6 firmware. Thus, the V6 now only supports the MDB protocol, as originally anticipated.

We still have archived versions of this firmware available, but it's not advised to use them, as they will lack any newer security and bill pattern updates to block counterfeit bills and allow for better acceptance

To be honest, we don't get many dollar users here, so I'm not worried about people using fake money to play music, so I did go with it, I'm just waiting for them to arrive and test them out.

Once I install the acceptors, and everything gets to be working correctly, then I'ma think to see if I should exchange it for the virtuo with speaker stand or if I should keep it, will see.

Bandicoot and njz3 from the French gameoover forums have made this great little device called VIDEOAMP.

It sits between your CRT and graphics card. Any graphics card on any PC. Even a laptop. No test mode or ATI card or emudriver required.

It's compatible with the the custom modeline text file that's generated from vmmaker. The file imports into the VIDEOAMP software and flashes the EDID data.


The problem is, switchres in groovymame always picks the 2560x240 60hz value. There are 15 modelines generated and imported, I see them all listed in the windows settings display resolution drop down but swithcres always picks the same one.  I tried using the old "static" mode with the "Max number of modes" uncapped but I get the same 15x modelines regardless if I choose "dynamic" or "static" (with the mame exe and XML options" selected).

1. Could switchres be configured to dynamically set custom EDID to the VIDEOAMP like it does with emudriver and ATI cards?

2. Is there a bug in vmmaker that the old "static" mode table method no longer works?



With a few tweaks I think this VIDEOAMP device could be a really amazing solution to future proof the CRT, switchres and groovymame ecosystem since it doesn't rely on using a dedicated PC in test mode with older ATI card / older drivers. You plug in the USB/video cable to the VIDEOAMP, connect it up to the CRT as the second screen, add "screen \\.\DISPLAY2" to the mame.ini then run groovymame on your main PC still with your HDMI 4K monitor attached.
I know some people are using groovymister for this same purpose but this is a lot cheaper.

More info if you are interested:
French: https://www.gamoover.net/Forums/index.php?topic=44224.0
English: https://www.arcade-projects.com/threads/vga-video-amplifier-board-for-arcade-monitor-with-sync-filter.24936/

I considered that they might be fully modeled, but my brain recoiled at the possibility. It does look nicely organic!

I was tempted to make them even more bumpy and irregular but settled for the result you see. 3D printers are such a natural progression from 3D design. I guess it's taken me this long to acquire one because I wasn't that impressed with them in the early days. I have a few build tasks coming up which will need printed parts. I'll post the results here as well.  I'm also doing a larger articulated mech spider with more detail, just for fun! Happy to share the STL when its ready.   

Clean build!  When I use the word 'clean' I mean really pro.  This hobby has so many skill types to draw on, electronics and electrics are high on the list. Its pushed me into a few areas I was less comfortable learning than others  .

I also loved the display of parts neatly laid out!  I have the exact same coin plate ha hah! 

I'm using LaunchBox (in BigBox mode) for my stand up cabinets as well as on my Daytona Twin driving cab.

Graduated High School 1979.

I'm happy to see some folks who are in the same ballpark. 

I was born in '79

You kids today

High school class of ‘81 baby!  Now get off my lawn
TTC


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Damn son, I was 8 in ‘81!


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Thanks, that web print is as per the mesh that I designed:

I considered that they might be fully modeled, but my brain recoiled at the possibility. It does look nicely organic!

i build wiff squars and sirkuls an stuff in tinkercad.

real cad is 2 hard

I was fortunate enough to be exposed to parametric modeling at my last 9 to 5 (over 20 years ago...oof) and it was a slog.  When it was being explained to me and while watching someone use it, I could literally feel my synapses re-routing and it was painful.  But one day, as if by some sort of biological sorcery, it just "clicked" and it was downhill from there.  Those learning curves can sometimes feel like a straight vertical line, but they are surmountable.  The tools have also become quite a bit better since then.

That stated, you might want to take a look at Plasticity.  It's CAD, but meant for those who might feel more at home using something like Blender or those who like modifying primitives (squars and sirkuls an stuff..lol.)  There's still a learning curve that my brain rejects due to the parametric modeling programming I received, but it looks very capable in the hands of someone more accustomed to more artistic ways of designing things.

But on the free side for local installs, there are basically only a couple of decent options: FreeCAD (and it's forks) and Blender.  FreeCAD has it's own ways of doing things, which parametric modelers who are already trained seem to despise, but if you are going in cold, there's no reason not to learn it.  Blender, as you probably know, is an insanely capable beast and there is a plugin in the works for doing CAD functions within it.  With all that capability, the learning curve is particularly steep. It's a 3D modeling application, so there is a ton of stuff not particularly aimed at functional design work.  So unless your interest is in the artistic over the functional or you already have experience in that realm, I wouldn't recommend that direction to someone who just wants to design their own parts.

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Scott