"Dual Screen Front end support" or "Who wants to make a front end to help me out

[AmericanDemon]

Alright, it has come time to get everything together to build the Infinity Project.  The project is very in depth and even exceeds Krawdaddy

[TheGatesofBill]

Why not have the touchscreen computer send signals via the parallel port to an I-PAC or something similar? Seems like it'd do what you want without the need for dealing with networking stuff (which always gives me a headache).

[AmericanDemon]

That would handle the credits.  But as for selecting games and such it wouldnt work properly.  Maybe I just have too much of a vision here and perhaps it truly is complex.  But someone must know how to run a program on one machine and have it activate a program on a totally separate machine through a custom interface on a standard network.

[TheGatesofBill]

It is possible, just a bit of a pita.

[AmericanDemon]

lol.  Yeah thats true.  I might be willing to pitch some cash at it, but that would depend on what someone would want to do it.

[TheGatesofBill]

That may do it. I just realized, there is a very good chance that whoever (if anyone) codes this thing would probably not have any use for it themselves. Good luck convincing someone to do it though.

[AmericanDemon]

With a few tweaks the idea can be applied to jukebox systems or even digital video libraries as more and more people move to HTPC setups.  It'd be a nifty remote console.

[screaming]

Actually, I'm already working on a similar project but with different goals. The goals, in order of importance, of my touchscreen are:

1) Be a customized keyboard for PC Games that need the keyboard.  By "customized", I mean take out all the "admin" keys that would let the user get into things they shouldn't.
2) Show controls.dat info for MAME games while you're in playing a game (for reference).
3) Show high scores for MAME games.
4) Instant replays for MAME games.

#1 is actually the easiest (fortunately), and is completed using a custom network application that I developed. The rest are pending   My "touchscreen" is actually a 3com Audrey and since it runs QNX (a flavor of UNIX), it is very limiting to me since I'm having trouble getting my hands on an SDK. If I have a Windows based webtop, I'd be able to make 2-4 work

  Until then, I can only give you what I got.

-sab

[Samstag]

#1 is actually the easiest (fortunately), and is completed using a custom network application that I developed. The rest are pending

[screaming]

If you need the old QNX environment that worked well with the Audrey I think I still have it around here somewhere. 

  Flippin' sweet! 6.0?  Does it include PhotonAB (which is what I really need)?

-sab

[Samstag]

[screaming]

I have one disk labelled 6.0 (making a boot floppy now to check it out) and I have a 2-disk set for 6.1.0.

  Thanks for your help!  Either one will work as long as it has the Application Builder...

  Sorry for hijacking your thread

-sab

[AmericanDemon]

Thats alright, I'll let ya live.   

Now if only someone would be willing to craft my goals.  :: sigh ::