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Title: I'm Back again!
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 15, 2011, 09:41:22 am

Going to start working on my projects again. 

Details here:

http://dragonking.arcadecontrols.com/index.php (http://dragonking.arcadecontrols.com/index.php)

 ;D

Title: Re: I'm Back again!
Post by: BadMouth on February 15, 2011, 03:02:33 pm

 :applaud:

Just picked up a pair of positional guns with solenoids in them.  ;D
Once I become familiar with MAMEhooker, I may just have to add some bells & whistles to the driving cab.
(red & blue lights behind the unused speaker grills to start with)

Title: Re: I'm Back again!
Post by: headkaze on February 15, 2011, 05:43:32 pm

 :cheers:

What language are you considering for your Johnny 5 overhaul?

Title: Re: I'm Back again!
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 16, 2011, 01:12:02 pm

Quote from: headkaze on February 15, 2011, 05:43:32 pm

:cheers:

What language are you considering for your Johnny 5 overhaul?

Well visual c++ would probably make the most sense.  Mame is c++ compatible now so I could use some of the parsing code from mame to make it parse ctrlr files exactly like it's supposed to.  I looked at vb.net, but honestly vb6 is still better.  C# is an option as well. 

Title: Re: I'm Back again!
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 21, 2011, 11:37:11 am

Posted a little bit of progress regarding mamehooker on my site.

That end of the month release date is looking unlikely, but at least I'm getting things done.

Title: Re: I'm Back again!
Post by: PsychoMikey on March 03, 2011, 06:03:13 am

Maybe not the right place to be posting this but i have a question:

I'm running Win7 and would like to use the visual pinball wrapper. When i try to launch trough the wrapper i just get stuck at a black screen. ctrl-alt-del/task manager keeps pushing me back to the black screen. At that point i can only log-out/log-in to get control back.

Any thoughts on this?

Title: Re: I'm Back again!
Post by: Howard_Casto on March 05, 2011, 11:15:23 am

Quote from: PsychoMikey on March 03, 2011, 06:03:13 am

Maybe not the right place to be posting this but i have a question:

I'm running Win7 and would like to use the visual pinball wrapper. When i try to launch trough the wrapper i just get stuck at a black screen. ctrl-alt-del/task manager keeps pushing me back to the black screen. At that point i can only log-out/log-in to get control back.

Any thoughts on this?

(I'm not trying to be sarcastic, just stating what I think is wrong.)

It could be because visual pinball is constantly being updated especially since the project recently became open-sourced and the visual pinball wrapper hasn't been updated in years.  Also visual pinball supports command lines now.... you'll only need a wrapper or an auto hot key script to exit out for you.  This should work 90% of the time.