Don't Call it a Comeback (Dragon King website is active again)

[headkaze]

If you add support for the LWAX format I can send you a whole bunch of preset LEDWiz animations I made. They are pretty darn cool. The only problem is they are in xml format so you need to be able to parse the xml.

[Howard_Casto]

Probably the simplier solution there is to make a lwax to mhs converter.  It's doable, but I don't know the format, so I'd need some info.

[headkaze]

I forgot that I actually had created all of the animations in LWA then converted them to LWAX. LWAX is a better format that me and Arzoo made which works with his LED Animation software.

Anyway I made these animations by "drawing" little black and white images in Photoshop with white being on and black being off. Then converted the pixels to LED patterns. Then finally converted LWA to LWAX. Anyway if you end up using them just put a little credit in there for me.

[Howard_Casto]

Works for me.... It'll be a while though, because I haven't set up an examples page yet. 

[retromax]

Glad to see you're back at it Howard, as you know if it wasn't for your talent my emulated Dedicated ChaseHQ cabinet wouldn't be the great little conversion that it is today!

Keep up the good work
You da man!

[retromax]

Is there anyway to stop the debug window appearing when mamehooker starts, it appears for a second or two and then minimises but is there a way of stopping it showing up on start???

[Howard_Casto]

Not currently.  That's something I can add though. 

[retromax]

Not currently.  That's something I can add though.  

Cheers dude, it's just a small thing when booting my cab i've managed to hide windows and  the command box that starts mame but not this, but it's not like it's the end of the world or anything:)
 

[Howard_Casto]

Mamehooker 3.7 is out... this adds the key state detection 1up asked about.  That will probably be it for a while... time to work on the actual website.

[Cakemeister]

Hey, you're a mamedev now! Nice! Maybe you can wean yourself off Visual Basic!

Gun output cleanups/hookups [Howard Casto]:
 * drivers\othunder.c:  Changed Operation Thunderbolt output names to
    something more appropriate. (They were routed to LEDs.)
 * video\rastan.c:  Hooked up output for Operation Wolf.
 * machine\midwunit.c:  Hooked up outputs for Revolution X.
 * machine\midyunit.c:  Hooked up outputs for Terminator 2.
 * drivers\seta.c:  Hooked up outputs for Zombie Raid.

[Howard_Casto]

Hey, you're a mamedev now! Nice! Maybe you can wean yourself off Visual Basic!

Gun output cleanups/hookups [Howard Casto]:
 * drivers\othunder.c:  Changed Operation Thunderbolt output names to
    something more appropriate. (They were routed to LEDs.)
 * video\rastan.c:  Hooked up output for Operation Wolf.
 * machine\midwunit.c:  Hooked up outputs for Revolution X.
 * machine\midyunit.c:  Hooked up outputs for Terminator 2.
 * drivers\seta.c:  Hooked up outputs for Zombie Raid.

Technically speaking I've been a mamedev since around 2001....  I just do very minor source changes and very seldomly at that.  (I think my last submission was like 5 or 6 years ago!)

[Howard_Casto]

Ok it's break time.  All of my projects, including the mame drivers will be on hold for the rest of the month, maybe a bit more.  Full details are on my site. 

I'll be scarce for a while, but I'll talk to you all real soon.

[Huggybaby]

We'll see you after you get rested up Howard!