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by Chuck
Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Hrm... cheap RFMs as candidates?
Replies: 22
Views: 27772

since working pb2k machines are around 2k I would expect one with computer failure to run around 1K. Justification is that the computer could cost upwards of 1300-1500 in original parts. The prism is ~1k itself. Of course it will cost you much less than that for our solution. And before anyone asks ...
by Chuck
Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:40 am
Forum: General
Topic: Compact Flash, USB Thumb drive, or hard drive?
Replies: 41
Views: 49847

USB has officially pissed me off. I'm joining the compact flash/IDE club as the preferred method of storage. We are also taking measures to reduce any writes to CF that we can. We want to reduce them to the point that hopefully no one would have to replace a CF due to them exceeding max writes. More...
by Chuck
Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:36 am
Forum: General
Topic: Today's Fun
Replies: 0
Views: 4376

Today's Fun

Just when I thought I had the graphics subsystem as optimized as it could be steve drops a bomb on me. Someone here asked a question about replacing original graphics. On our almost daily call yesterday steve and I discussed this issue. It seems that he forgot to tell me something strange he found i...
by Chuck
Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: Hrm... cheap RFMs as candidates?
Replies: 22
Views: 27772

Buy a broken one cheap now. I don't think they will be so cheap when we are done.
by Chuck
Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Tell us what you would like to see.
Replies: 20
Views: 26116

ChadTower wrote:For the time being the only DMD game I have is a Shadow... don't see that changing any time soon and definitely not by acquiring a modern Stern. :?
I was talking about the topper you hippy =)
by Chuck
Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Hrm... cheap RFMs as candidates?
Replies: 22
Views: 27772

Definately.

I would like to do the same once this is done and do a complete restoration. Then trick the thing out with our system, lcd monitor, and maybe upgrade the sound system. We have a few tricks up our sleeve for the sound ;-)
by Chuck
Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:25 am
Forum: General
Topic: Screen Shots
Replies: 4
Views: 7139

JB wrote:Nice. Looks like a bit of image tearing in the first screenshot in the red beam.

-JB
Good eyes ;-)

That has to be from the screen cap program I used. I have not seen any evidence of tearing while running the code. And technically it shouldn't happen.
by Chuck
Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Screen Shots
Replies: 4
Views: 7139

Thats a direct dump of the screen, no camera. I just thought everyone might like to see the graphics as they really look.

kibitz away =)
by Chuck
Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:57 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Screen Shots
Replies: 4
Views: 7139

Screen Shots

Since they are saved as a jpg there is a very slight compression but not much. Here's what it really looks like:

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by Chuck
Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: LCD Monitor?
Replies: 28
Views: 35202

It was a while ago i played rfm, but are there any sign of pixelation, and if it is Ii guess it would be even more noticable when using a lcd display. Maybe somekind of blurring would smooth things out? Computer monitors do show a fair amount of blockiness and pixelation. But since lcd's that would...
by Chuck
Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:17 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Compact Flash, USB Thumb drive, or hard drive?
Replies: 41
Views: 49847

sellenoff wrote:Heh.. I've got thousands of hours under this project most likely.. ;)
ok

hours=hours<<4

better? ;-)
by Chuck
Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Animation Quality
Replies: 8
Views: 11366

Re: Lightwave 3D & RFM

JB wrote:I also wonder why they left out eyeballs on the livestock in the "Big-O-Beam" mode!
I never noticed that...
by Chuck
Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RFM network card config utility and monitor experiments
Replies: 1
Views: 4469

Cool stuff. That scan converter is really cool but would probably blow people's bugets for this ;-)

We will obviously support any new monitor natively. We also support the old monitors but I can't say how just yet.
by Chuck
Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Tell us what you would like to see.
Replies: 20
Views: 26116

Or have it as a scoreboard whith everybodys scores, and brief info on what mode the current player plays etc. Ooh! A "tournament topper" LCD... making an http query to the high scores website and displaying various stats on the screen, configurable locally in an XML file. I'll sell you th...
by Chuck
Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Compact Flash, USB Thumb drive, or hard drive?
Replies: 41
Views: 49847

So many factors play into what hardware we use. reliability is a key for me. Compatibility is also a huge issue. We are doing our best. In the end I would like to be able to tell people to choose their favorite storage method (which may be a reality.) I like usb drives for convenience. I think don l...