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lettuce:
Why will there be no new updates to Powermame then?

mahuti:
Well, you'd have to ask MikeQ about that. I think it's because he could never get any additional help developing PowerMAME. There's plenty of interest, but not enough programmers.

Howard_Casto:
Yeah, unfortunately I saw that one coming as soon as pmame was released.  Programming for mame is hard, and time consuming.  It's hard to keep a custom build updated. 

Regardless, handling custom light layouts inside mame was never a good idea anyway.... it can easily be done externally.  Mame broadcasts the rom name when it launches a game for pete's sake.. all you have to do is monitor mame via an external app. 


Now controlling hardware via a mame driver (qbert knocker ,ect ) was a good idea but with the exception of qbert, nothing was ever done with it. 

Howard_Casto:
Got my ledwiz today.  I haven't started coding yet as I'm still learning the commands.  The suggested software is a tad odd. 

I wrote a tiny little app to mix colors with.  It'll have to be calibrated (as monitor pixels don't have the same intensity as the leds) but it is already a decent tool to get rgb color values from. Nothing fancy, just a color swatch box and three sliders to adjust the rgb value.  I haven't seen anything like that for the hardware yet, so I thought I'd mention it.  I'll release it once It's a little more user friendly.  I can also add a "pick a color" box if you guys want that just takes the colors you can pick from your typical windows app and converts their 255 color scale to 48. 

Howard_Casto:
I finished up that proof of concept app with the color picker. 

You can get it here.

It doesn't do anything particularly useful, but it was mainly a test to see how well I could get the hardware to respond.  What it does is turn off the first bank of lights, and then sets light 1 and 2 to the colors you choose.  Of course it assumes that both light 1 and 2 are rgb lights and that they are installed in the proper order (pin1=r, pin2=g, pin3=b ect...)

The rapid transmisson test is what I need some feedback on though... when you click it your first two buttons should quickly blink to random colors. Please let me know if this is not the result, thanks. 

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