Posted by Howard Casto on 30, 2001 at 3:46 PM:
In Reply to: Re: The things I didn't get from Santa or Request to FE writers posted by generic eric on 30, 2001 at 1:14 AM:
Nah your not an odd ball, you just have odd-ball like qualities.
;)
If the interface and drivers would be established it would be no problem getting the rd to display virtually anything on the lcd. To be honest though it's probably on the bottom of my list of things to do. Now if it's one of those deals where you have drivers that read from a file and output to the screen automatically, that would be easy as cake to add. (Which I think you were hinting at.) Of course the downfall of that type of interface is that it's pretty slow. You have to make a file everytime you want to switch, which can sometimes take a sec.
I once knew of an old dos program that outputted to those little lcd displays that are so popular in the "build your own mp3 player" scene. It's been way too long though.
: So I'm an odd ball huh?
: Tell ya what, when I get to the point that I'm ready, I will get back w/ ya on the vpin stuff, and we will see where we can go with it.
: : My FE supports pc games... it supports anything via the extras list.
: : As for the arcade high-scores request..... That's a very, very oddball suggestion. High score display I can see, but high score exported to a lcd display is a very specialized request. Perhaps you should work on getting support for that yourself. I have been looking into lcd output for v pin mame though, but it wouldn't have anything to do with the fe itself.
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: : : Does anyones fe have support for PC games? I dunno, my 'puter is on its last leg, needs to be reformatted acutally, no sense trying to test while it is in its current state. No harm in gathering info though.
: : : I think it would be keen to play some Warcraft and Diablo w/ an arcade trackball.
: : : Can you use the Guncon w/Mad Dog Mcree on a PS2? or am I stuck using the remote control or gamepad?
: : : : I got my PS2 (no flames from fanboys pls!)
: : : : I have a question for the FE writers. Is support to output high scores/game stats to a file or the serial port so I can hook up an lcd or led display. I think it would be cool to have a scrolling marquee w/ that info on it. Maybe you could have the FE "copy" the info to another file each time a game is initiallized, then have the info read by a device hooked up to the serial port.
: : : : If its already been done, let me know. The only thing I similar I read was about daphne that had a HUD/banner of some sort.
: : : : Enjoy your holiday...I am at work :(