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Buddabing:
Hello,

The first phase of implementing my LED controller is complete. I took a couple of pictures......

Buddabing:
I wrote some software to reproduce some of the bling bling effects of the Arcalux
 control panel. Unfortunately, I've lost the charger for my son's camcorder, so actual video of this controller will have to wait for a few days while I acquire a new one.

I'm planning on putting in support for this controller in my MAME build. I envision two uses at first: one, to light individual buttons on a control panel according to what controls are active at the time, and two, to light up LEDs around each of the eight cardinal directions around a joystick, depending on which directions are active on the joystick.

So far my demo application only runs on Windows 98 or DOS because of the problems that NT based Windows has with directly controlling parallel ports. I'm sure a Linux hacker could get it to work easily with the parport libraries. I do plan to incorporate support for NT windows, however.


Lilwolf:
Cool.  So whats your long term plans?  Considering making / selling them?  Setup kits?  Or showing people how to do it?

Toonces:
That is very cool. Along with a GP-Wiz49 you could have a really cool setup! As far as Windows XP goes, you can use a DOS program to set (or clear) the bits without any kind of modification to the program. You just have to run the dos program twice. Check out my control program for the GP-Wiz49 for examples of how I control mine. I use a relay board but it really isn't necessary. You just reverse the logic and clear the bits you want for the mode set. You can download the batch files I use to control a DOS app here: http://www.pachislofun.com/setmode/setmode.zip


How are you taking commands to turn the LEDs on? does it correspond to the modes of the GP-Wiz49 by any chance? I am thinking that if the LED board were connected in parallel with the GP-Wiz49 you could have mode changes and LEDs for each.

Thanks!

Toonces

MrSaLTy:
I was thinking about trying to do the same thing the other day.  Now that I got my gpwiz49's I was gunna try to figure out how to light leds based on what mode was switched and have the panel light up the cp arrows around the stick etc.  Also the lights based on controls.dat for buttons etc.  I will be very interested to see what you come up with for this.  good luck Budda!

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