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VPinball/Pinmame and a LCD/LED/Dot Matrix Display?
« on: March 01, 2005, 09:39:36 am »
I've been searching, but I've yet to see if anyone has successfully immplemented some kind of external display for PinMAME's output in Visual Pinball.

Has this been done?

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Re: VPinball/Pinmame and a LCD/LED/Dot Matrix Display?
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2005, 10:13:54 am »
No, pinmame is based on mame which only handles CRT monitors and only updates the display at 60 frames per second. To drive a DMD you'll need ~360 Hz and LEDs are even higher.

Technicly it is possible to build a driver board for a DMD that outputs a bitmap to the DMD but handling different intensity and animations will be difficult.
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Re: VPinball/Pinmame and a LCD/LED/Dot Matrix Display?
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2005, 04:54:57 pm »
I figured it'd be a bit more complex than I had thought, although I figured someone would have used an LCD and VGA output or something to pull it off by now.  Oh well  ;D
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Re: VPinball/Pinmame and a LCD/LED/Dot Matrix Display?
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2005, 04:06:04 am »
Hmmm... what about an LCD attached via the serial or parallel port?

A graphic LCD can be driven fast enough to do animations and things. A serial one could only really do an alphanumeric display for fast updates....
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