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Gamecab:
If anyone knows how to Hack and I-Opener LCD screen I would be willing to give it a try.  I have a spare 8x6 LCD screen just hanging around.

jace055:

--- Quote from: Hoagie_one on January 19, 2005, 09:14:25 am ---you could use a full sized lcd monitor and just hide the bottom portion of it so a marquee sizd portion shows only.

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I am in the process of building this exact thing right now, but there is a little twist.  I am going to work on it this weekend and try to get pictures up.   

penjuin:
When you say LCD, do you mean a colour one? if you can deal with black and white, head over to http://www.crystalfontz.com or http://www.matrixorbital.com and you can pick up some pretty nice ones. They are all ready to be simply plugged in. The ones from Matrix orbital can also be interfaced with a keypad (maybe an interactive control menu ;)). If you get a character LCD, then go to (windows) http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/ or (linux) http://lcd4linux.sourceforge.net and you can find controlling software. Graphic LCDs are a bit more complicated but there is plenty of software for them. Sometimes even small games can be played on them (imagine dual space invaders! :D ;D :D)

20x4 screen with 25 key keypad interface
(currently playing space invaders)


Graphic LCD

Trimoor:
I think the idea is to use a LCD computer monitor to display a marquee and game/controller data.
The hardware is trivial, just plug and play, but we need the appropriate software to link it with MAME.

The best thing to do would be to add support directly into MAME.  Then it would work on all OSes. (I HATE windows.)

fogman:
I have thought about doing something like this to project onto the marquee.  Any thoughts?

http://www.audiovisualizers.com/madlab/lcd_proj.htm

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