TIGRAC - now the TORONTRON!
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:24 pm
Ok I have posted about this previously,.
"The Toronto Indie Game Retrofitted Arcade Cabinet project or TIGRAC is a project of The Hand Eye Society here in Toronto."
Update; I got the laptop booting XPpro from the USB drive,. had to partition it to 2GB to get it to boot, much trial and fail to figure that out! Then dug up the hardware drivers for sound and graphics,. . seems to work well so far. USB gamepad was working then cut out,. the conector was a bit mashed I may have to find another if this one is unstable,. . but is did work for a bit. just got the s-video out to send to a TV,. not the actual one we will be useing but wanted to test the laptop and it worked well.
The actual cabinent should be delivered in a day or two. I will need to get the gamepad stable then hack it apart and wire to the actual stick and buttons,. this leads me to my question for you guys,. what we are looking for with this is a way to launch the games from a menu that is controled with just the stick and buttons on the cabinent,. there are a bunch of ones for MAME and other EMU stuff but I may just build my oun to keep it looking nice,. I'm wundering how to get the menu to re-launch when a game is quit? anyone done anthing like this?? one idea is that the menu just keeps running, and the games have higher priority,. also looking to have this launch automaticly when the system is booted.. any other thoughts on this?
some history on the box we found; http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=13560
apparently it is an Italian bootlag of Centapide,. but ours has a stick that looks original?
"The Toronto Indie Game Retrofitted Arcade Cabinet project or TIGRAC is a project of The Hand Eye Society here in Toronto."
Update; I got the laptop booting XPpro from the USB drive,. had to partition it to 2GB to get it to boot, much trial and fail to figure that out! Then dug up the hardware drivers for sound and graphics,. . seems to work well so far. USB gamepad was working then cut out,. the conector was a bit mashed I may have to find another if this one is unstable,. . but is did work for a bit. just got the s-video out to send to a TV,. not the actual one we will be useing but wanted to test the laptop and it worked well.
The actual cabinent should be delivered in a day or two. I will need to get the gamepad stable then hack it apart and wire to the actual stick and buttons,. this leads me to my question for you guys,. what we are looking for with this is a way to launch the games from a menu that is controled with just the stick and buttons on the cabinent,. there are a bunch of ones for MAME and other EMU stuff but I may just build my oun to keep it looking nice,. I'm wundering how to get the menu to re-launch when a game is quit? anyone done anthing like this?? one idea is that the menu just keeps running, and the games have higher priority,. also looking to have this launch automaticly when the system is booted.. any other thoughts on this?
some history on the box we found; http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=13560
apparently it is an Italian bootlag of Centapide,. but ours has a stick that looks original?