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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Auntie MAME on January 16, 2003, 04:57:23 pm
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I just got a cab with the game Simply Solitaire. I was told it was converted from something else. The game runs. It has a 486 motherboard in it. An arcade monitor is plugged into a VGA port. The trackball plugs into the serial port. The game itself runs off a floppy (No HD). When the game boots the Bios POST shows three seperate images on the monitor. They a blurry and overlapping. Is suspect the monitor is an arcade type somehpw rigged to work with a VGA interface. Any ideas or info. would be greatly appreciated. My goal is to convert this to a MAME cab. It would be great to use as much of the existing components as possible.
Thanks!!
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I searched but couldn't find any info.
You said that it boots from a floppy disk, right? If it is in fact an arcade game, maybe you could make the game data from the disk available to the MAME team for possible emulation. Maybe the board could be dumped or something too. (if different than a PC one)
They seem to know just about everything about all the different games that are out there. Maybe they've heard of it.
Dunno. Big help I am, huh?
Word.
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I just got a cab with the game Simply Solitaire. I was told it was converted from something else. The game runs. It has a 486 motherboard in it. An arcade monitor is plugged into a VGA port. The trackball plugs into the serial port. The game itself runs off a floppy (No HD). When the game boots the Bios POST shows three seperate images on the monitor. They a blurry and overlapping. Is suspect the monitor is an arcade type somehpw rigged to work with a VGA interface. Any ideas or info. would be greatly appreciated. My goal is to convert this to a MAME cab. It would be great to use as much of the existing components as possible.
Thanks!!
I've got a Solitaire game. It has a 386SX motherboard, a mountable VGA monitor, and a trackball hooked up to the motherboard via a HAPPs serial trackball interface. It boots from a custom card plugged into one of the ISA slots. The game is simply a DOS game. This is going to be my first MAME conversion since it's basically a PC with a trackball. I mounted a few more buttons and a joystick onto the control panel. I'm working on a keyboard hack for the buttons and joystick (I know about other solutions, but I'm having fun doing the hacking myself).
I don't know much else about the game, and I don't have any manuals. But if you want to compare notes about them, email me offlist (dalessio at motorola dot com).
Mario