Yeah, I think I might be the guy next in line already. Ok. As a new member of your forum, I vote you offer stuff to your own forum members first in the future!!! P.S. Who's buying it? Maybe I can pay them $50 to let me have it :) I've got an extra SWE1 playfield I pulled when I bought mine. It's no...

Yep, that helped a lot actually. Sorry about the long list of questions, we new forum members are so full of them :) Really though, I just couldn't seem to piece it together from the other posts. I'm getting my RFM in about 3 weeks. Hope to get a SWE1 kit --- kicking myself I didn't end up with you...

Hrm. How many completely non tech people can reasonably be expected to use a product like this? I know there are plenty of pin owners who don't know a transistor from a big sister but those are the same guys who would be paying someone like us to set this up for them. All of them. We plan on offeri...

Our latest major revision of code was done today. Lots of new things went into it. A whole lot of speed optimizations and a few new tricks. Assuming all goes well this weekend, it's time for another video. Yes, but you forget to mention, that everytime you speed up the code, I manage to slow it dow...

ChadTower wrote:So given how cheap and plentiful smallish IDE hard drives are, why CF over IDE and not a hard drive?

It's overkill for what we need. That being said, with relative ease, we could support both, and most likely will, though I haven't confirmed that with Chuck, but I see no reason not to.

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 ...

That's exactly what we're doing, it loads everything into memory and runs from there, so the key is only read when you turn the game on initially. As for the writes, we're still working on a few things to see what the best way to handle it is, but we will certainly keep the writes to the key as min...

No, we've not spent time trying to understand how the graphics are stored, formats used, etc.. It'd take a lot of time looking at the assembly code to figure out exactly how they do it. I will say that having the emulator working makes it much easier now to figure that stuff out, so perhaps in the f...

Wouldn't it be possible to have linux load itself + the emulator from the usb to the ram, and run everything from there. And just write the important stuff to the usb once in a while? That's exactly what we're doing, it loads everything into memory and runs from there, so the key is only read when ...

So while it's true our software won't help you make a new game from scratch as Chuck said, our product in fact will give anyone a great advantage towards achieving this, since they'll only need to write the software. If things go well with our product, I can see us possibly working on a game develo...

I said the very same thing when Chuck mentioned it, but he says it looks great. I haven't seen it myself, and will wait to be proven wrong.. ;) ok, WOW... The brightness and color quality of my 19" junk lcd I'm using for testing was pretty incredible off the mirrored glass. So this definately c...

1) Replacing an existing game graphic with a custom one. I'm not sure it's that easy. There might be some tricks we can pull to achieve the result, but only time will tell. 2) Replacing an existing video, with a custom one. I'd say it's about the same difficulty as #1. 3) Modifying an existing game...

Depending on the IO details of their implementation it could be a major issue. If they are going heavy on disk IO a thumb drive may not last long at all. It would be interesting to know the algorithm used by the p2k software. If it writes to storage each time a logged event occurs then writes could...

Oddly enough I fell in love with Pinball 2000 from playing Star Wars E1 at a local arcade right around the time it came out. Both machines were side by side, but I couldn't get into RFM at the time for some reason, it didn't do anything for me. Having never seen AFM (it's predecessor) I didn't see i...

I fell in love with video games from the moment they arrived, aka space invaders, pacman and all the others in between. Got bored of them during the late 80's, but then I got hooked on pinball in 1990 during my finals week in college on T2 and Funhouse. Decided that one day I would own a collection,...