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« Reply #25 on: February 20, 2011, 09:43:33 PM »
Thanks Mopar!  yes
I feel a little smarter now!  rotflmao
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« Reply #26 on: February 20, 2011, 10:14:52 PM »
Smiley

the slot it self will not use backward reels (but as iv coded the reel driver my self from scratch its nice to have that option Smiley, i might use it on other projects Smiley)

adding support for backwards reels was very easy just a few extra lines on code + 1 extra bit in the reel param byte in the mem map Smiley

ah yes as said above dmd is dot matrix display, one of my fav things in the world Smiley


am currently writing an adobe air app that imports gif/swf files and exports them as C byte arrays so i can include them in the dmd code to display images and animations Smiley. hopefully be working on the dmd again real soon, this is where the real fun/imagination is Smiley
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« Reply #27 on: February 26, 2011, 02:51:32 PM »
finnaly writen the adobe air app, it works very well.

I can import any flash swfs/gifs and convert them to the c byte arrays my dmd code needs to display images on the dmd. takes seconds to convert and export and add to my dmd project Smiley



each frame is split into three arrays, the high buffer and low buffer + transparency buffer.
to get the 4 colours (off,low,mid,bright) you need just 2 sub frames. when u combine them you get the full 4 colour image
the third sub frame describes the transparency (which bits to actually draw to the display)
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« Reply #28 on: May 08, 2011, 04:23:01 PM »
More posts, please, what happened??
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« Reply #29 on: May 08, 2011, 05:46:18 PM »
hey,

not really touched the project recently due to some other crap coming up. but i will get back into it very soon!!!

I was last working on my custom audio board im designing. im gonna build it from scratch using 2 mp3 decoders with a 2gig nandflash.
currently bread boarding it and have it 90% working (it will have two channels so i can play two audio samples at once!). i definitely wanted two channels so i could play like feature music in the back ground and have all the count dings/effect samples playing over the top

creating two or more channel audio at hardware level is extremely hard! (well to do it correctly!)

This board will be cool as its gonna be completely built from scratch, no stuck on break out boards. gonna be pure smd!!! Smiley


once i have my audio board working ill start working on the DMD controller library some more then can start work on the actual game it self!


audio board so far!
http://russdx.frankster200.com/slot/Job2.PDF

this is a very early pcb layout! need to adjust a few trace sizes (like the power rail) and sort some other stuff out
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« Reply #30 on: May 08, 2011, 06:13:48 PM »
Thanks for the updates Russ and keep at it. We are really intrested in your progress. I would not go commercial with it as the "giants" would see to it that you would never get off the ground. But selling kits to hobbyist home users would give you a good market as lots of people like kits and building things. You could retain the license on the design and then sell the board kits either complete or as parts and board. All people would have to do is provide a cabinet of their choice and complete it
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« Reply #31 on: May 08, 2011, 10:25:39 PM »
hehe, its just a little home project. im to lazy to 'sell' it Smiley
this tech is NO were near as good as the current slot tech (which is pretty much just a pc these days lol)

would be fun to maybe make conversions kits like a sort of plug and play for the old igt machines so people could program there own games. id redesign the whole lot from scratch into one board that is a direct replacement of the current control board in these games.

would be a cool little project Smiley.   maybe once this project is done ill look into doing that Smiley
not sure how many people would be interested in programming there own machines though / would have the programming skills?
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« Reply #32 on: May 08, 2011, 11:35:18 PM »
Maybe you could add an Ethernet port so that the board could get an IP address and build in a web interface so that all the tests/controls could be done with a browser
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« Reply #33 on: May 09, 2011, 06:48:10 AM »
id definitely add a ethernet port, probably wouldnt be used for programming / control this would be done using usb (much easier). ethernet would be used for tournament modes and shared progressive pots with other machines / some server Smiley
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« Reply #34 on: May 09, 2011, 10:41:34 AM »
But a web based interface would a person to control all his machines based on TCP/IP and to gather stats, do IO testing, etc. But USB is good as well
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« Reply #35 on: August 10, 2011, 04:15:31 PM »
been a while but i am back working on this project Smiley

will be working on the dmd code alot more Smiley
and need to finish off the audio board Smiley

more updates to come!!!
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