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« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2009, 12:10:11 PM » |
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« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2009, 12:29:58 PM » |
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not letting the grass grow under your feet eh boys Straight into the next. I like others will keep tuned for all the updates. Good to see there is some recognition from overseas groups as well  |
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« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2009, 01:40:50 PM » |
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« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2009, 02:26:21 PM » |
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Great stuff  How long are you giving yourselves to complete this title? |
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WTB - Gottlieb Volley (any condition)
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« Reply #19 on: May 20, 2009, 07:30:34 PM » |
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I offer my services as official tester when its finished...  Good luck with it Guys, I will be looking out in anticipation for the updates |
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« Reply #20 on: May 22, 2009, 07:11:45 PM » |
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Guys, can you offer any specific detail on what kind of I/O hardware you are using to interface the playfield electro mechanics with the PC?
Also what software is being used to build the actual game play rule set?
With the deterioration of old pin spares I wonder how hard it would be to replace buggered old controller boards with a PC running the show via D/A interfaces using something like Visual Pinball emu?
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« Reply #21 on: May 22, 2009, 08:17:59 PM » |
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Guys, can you offer any specific detail on what kind of I/O hardware you are using to interface the playfield electro mechanics with the PC?
Also what software is being used to build the actual game play rule set?
With the deterioration of old pin spares I wonder how hard it would be to replace buggered old controller boards with a PC running the show via D/A interfaces using something like Visual Pinball emu?
The driver board we are using was actually produced for that exact purpose - to interface between a PC running pinmame with a game for which there's no CPU. The project just seemed to disappear (maybe due to things like Parcal's wonderful CPU replacements making this sort of thing of little value?). We grabbed the last two boards, although Nug has speced a redesigned one anyway as it has some built-in issues and much of the componentry can be replaced with other less numerous components. The OS is Windows XP - there's some stuff native to XP that assist with how Nug pulled this off, although he is looking at other options at the moment. The games rules are written in VB. |
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« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2009, 04:51:06 PM » |
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Nice work guys. If you are willing, I would like to offer my services again for the artwork.  |
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« Reply #23 on: May 23, 2009, 08:56:33 PM » |
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nice one spacies . saw your artwork on CI in the flesh and its fantastic! |
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« Reply #24 on: May 24, 2009, 07:43:14 AM » |
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Nice work guys. If you are willing, I would like to offer my services again for the artwork. how about a ....... playfield for CI !  |
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« Reply #25 on: May 24, 2009, 08:36:49 AM » |
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« Reply #26 on: May 24, 2009, 09:36:50 AM » |
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Hey Cristian looking good so far your not mucking around are ya
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« Reply #27 on: July 15, 2009, 05:54:18 PM » |
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« Reply #28 on: May 24, 2010, 07:29:24 PM » |
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Love the outhole straight onto the mini flipper, straight around the loop and crashing into a pop bumper !
I like it already
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« Reply #29 on: May 24, 2010, 07:37:30 PM » |
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We're getting back into this one - the big rush to finish Coconut Island for the Sydney auction weekend was a bit of a bummer and it's hard to believe it's been a year since CI was actually finished and Nug and I did the big road trip to display it in Sydney. Huge thanks to Greg ( www.rtbb.com.au ) who donated some assemblies to kick this project along, I'm getting excited again at the thought of this one!! |
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