Re: Pinball 2000 Project - Working Demo - Video

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:30:18 -0800 (PST), chuck <chuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

http://www.chucksarcade.com/images/movie/pb2k.wmv

This shows what we've accomplished so far. We are still working out a
lot of details and it's not ready for prime time but it's very
playable. Steve, Don, and I have been working on this for a while.
Steve actually started work on his own a long while ago ;-) We are
planning on doing some very cool things. You won't have to worry
about updating the roms when you switch playfields. We plan to let
the software sense which playfield is installed to make switching
quick and easy. We also have a few other tricks up our sleeves that
we will talk about later.

I did make a mistake, I'm not a professional videographer by any
means. When I said the machine starts up in a failsafe mode and we
only read, thats not true. We do actually write to the parallel port
otherwise the lights wouldn't flash ;-) I was too lazy to figure out
how to replace the audio in that section or re-shoot the whole thing.

Great job you guys! This is very impressive work. It will probably
have the advantage of being a little more responsive too. Sometimes
video responses to switch closures seems to lag a bit on RFM, maybe
throwing a couple of gHz at it will solve that. Of course then other
timing related bugs may show up but....
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