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POLL - Add a new "Touchscreen Games" sub forum to BYOAC?

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PL1:

--- Quote from: lilshawn on February 04, 2013, 10:18:52 pm ---to be quite honest, i haven't viewed the WIKI since i found the link to the forum.

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I don't expect an experienced guy like you to be reading the wiki all the time, but there are many good reasons to fix it.

1. It's easier to steer people to a well-written wiki page than spending lots of time typing up a lengthy response that has a huge overlap with 20 other lengthy responses that you've typed up in the last month.  ::)

It's much more efficient to post, "Read this and LMK if you have further questions."

2. The info in the Wiki is now badly out-of-date.

3. The "Unknown Unknowns" factor - A well-organized wiki page will let noobs discover related issues/topics and make it easier for them to use better/more correct terms when searching or asking questions in the forums.

4. Forum search results can give you out-of-date info -- and only the poster (or a mod) can fix it.

IIRC, one of the reasons I bought a TT2+encoder instead of a SpinTrak was a post that mentioned a several-seconds switching delay between spinner and trackball if you accidently jostle the wrong one first when both are connected to your Mini-Pac.

Apparently that hasn't been the case for a long time.   :dizzy:
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Scott

smartbomb2084:
Just add the forum already... what's the big deal with the naming of it?

If you call it MERIT/JVL then you are eliminating all the MIDWAY Touchmaster Infinity games.  I know they are the lesser of the three in manufacturing quantity but they are still out there...

Here's my nomination... straight from the ION 2013 Software attract mode..

<no thong pics outside the cheescake thread, kthxbai - haruman>


MTPPC:
I think you need to include homebuilt touch game countertops in your consideration of who will be using the forum. I am not forgetting about my project on hold, but I have Angry Birds and IGT slot machines already configured. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,123338.0.html

saint:
OK, I will set this forum up. Please settle on a name and let me know :)  Should someone moderate the forum? If so, whom?

lilshawn:
it begins.

the reason I was considering just the commercial countertops is because they are all the same (between models) and they have their own specific set of software for them. information contained in the forum would be particular to these machines. common problems have a common solution across the board because of this linearity. All the same boards, all the same displays, all the same configuration.

a home built machine could have any amount of software or hardware in it...making diagnosis fairly difficult. The issues you may encounter could be caused by just about ANYTHING. hardware, software, errors in setup, or modifications.

Perhaps a HOMEBUILT child forum inside the "touchscreen games" parent forum could be in order. (similar to how the "Drinking, Knitting & Boating Forum" and the "Meet-Up" are sub forums of the "everything else" forum.

Assuming we can keep the cross-contamination down, It could work.

Thoughts?

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