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Title: Enthusiast turns his HDTV into the ultimate digital pinball machine Post by: Stolistic on March 03, 2009, 12:36:06 PM Fun video about someone that built a virtual pinball machine from a HDTV etc.
See link below for short article and video: http://dvice.com/archives/2009/03/enthusiast_turn.php (http://dvice.com/archives/2009/03/enthusiast_turn.php) Here is a link to the software he is running: http://www.futurepinball.com (http://www.futurepinball.com) Title: Re: Enthusiast turns his HDTV into the ultimate digital pinball machine Post by: rickhunter on March 03, 2009, 06:15:28 PM Way cool!!! :3- :3- :3- :3-
Thanks for sharing. Title: Re: Enthusiast turns his HDTV into the ultimate digital pinball machine Post by: jay on March 03, 2009, 09:06:20 PM I saw a Superball 2000 in an airport about a month ago. It was basically a 50" LCD.
I am not sure what it used for force feed back but the whole machine shook pretty good. There is a good series of pinballs out under mame. I have a Williams Diner (Dine Time) pinball. The emulation is pretty darn good. Title: Re: Enthusiast turns his HDTV into the ultimate digital pinball machine Post by: stayouttadabunker on March 04, 2009, 02:09:08 AM I havent played pinball for so long...THAT is cool looking...I will download it for sure and try it out :91-
Title: Re: Enthusiast turns his HDTV into the ultimate digital pinball machine Post by: StatFreak on March 04, 2009, 09:24:43 AM The HD 3-D looks impressive and they seem to have the game/ball physics well worked out. I also downloaded a copy to try. I'm not sure how it will look on a wide but short laptop monitor. My processor and memory might be a bit strained as well... :79-
Title: Re: Enthusiast turns his HDTV into the ultimate digital pinball machine Post by: KirkLasVegas on March 04, 2009, 11:20:47 AM This is a *PERFECT* application for the flood of "720P" LCD and plasma HDTV's on sale.I have seen them around for under $1000 for 50 and 52" models....
Kirk Title: Re: Enthusiast turns his HDTV into the ultimate digital pinball machine Post by: dpalmi on March 04, 2009, 02:44:39 PM I would love to see someone put this setup into an actual pinball cabint - so it looks like a pinball machine. Anyone know of a manufacturer doing this??
Dan #2 Title: Re: Enthusiast turns his HDTV into the ultimate digital pinball machine Post by: KirkLasVegas on March 04, 2009, 02:56:02 PM Looks like time to find all those DEAD atari widebody pinball machines for their cabinets.......
Repaint them and install the goodies....food for thought? Kirk Title: Re: Enthusiast turns his HDTV into the ultimate digital pinball machine Post by: stayouttadabunker on March 04, 2009, 03:44:23 PM Some guy named Mark Jenison at GamesForum.ca has one for sale for $150.00
http://www.gamesforum.ca/showthread.php?t=335580 Title: Re: Enthusiast turns his HDTV into the ultimate digital pinball machine Post by: knagl on March 04, 2009, 09:17:52 PM Holy crap that's neat!! My jaw was dropped open as I watched that.
Title: Re: Enthusiast turns his HDTV into the ultimate digital pinball machine Post by: stayouttadabunker on March 04, 2009, 09:52:19 PM I have one question...where's the flipper buttons? :103-
Title: Re: Enthusiast turns his HDTV into the ultimate digital pinball machine Post by: KirkLasVegas on March 04, 2009, 10:05:35 PM You can use a MAME convertor.I have one that simply plugs into the PS-2 connector on a PC and you close contacts to emulate keystrokes. There are MAME sites and places like www.twistedquarter.com that have these goodies.
you simply wire the flipper buttons and other switches to this board and it makes the keystrokes that the MAME system understands. Title: Re: Enthusiast turns his HDTV into the ultimate digital pinball machine Post by: Frank A on March 04, 2009, 11:04:39 PM There are also 5 Williams machines available for the Wii system. I have a real Taxi pinball and the Taxi game is on the Wii, but the real thing is stil the best.
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