Ha! I love that you snipped soundbites from space shuttle. You MUST tell us more about this project. Based on the video it looks like bally flippers, LCD for the entire backglass (simulating 14-segment display).

*edit* nevermind, this must be you:
http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=19838

This is possibly the first successful pinmame crossover to real pinball I've seen

#4 11 years ago

ROG

rosve2020

Inactive member

Unknown City

11y 7,900 7

Thanks Todd,

This is really only a test machine to try out some building techniques, but I am almost surprised how fun to play it turned out.
For my next build I will design a more complex (90's style) playfield.

#5 11 years ago

ZPY

zippydapinhead

Inactive member

Albany, OR

12y 78,450 3,484 12 32

Nice!

#6 11 years ago

ROG

rosve2020

Inactive member

Unknown City

11y 7,900 7

Quoted from toyotaboy:
Ha! I love that you snipped soundbites from Space Shuttle. You MUST tell us more about this project. Based on the video it looks like bally flippers, LCD for the entire backglass (simulating 14-segment display).

Yeah , I sold my Space Shuttle pin a couple of years ago and I miss it a lot. Had to use a little of it in my own pin

#7 11 years ago

TOM

tomdotcom

Pinside member

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Very cool, thx for posting the vp link toyota, good read

#8 11 years ago

RPT

Prmailers

Inactive member

High Bridge, NJ

11y 24,150 1,558 19

Very cool.

Great work.

Would love to see pictures of the process as you went along.

Looks like JJP might have some competition in the LCD backglass arena!

#9 11 years ago

JJZ

toyotaboy

RandOM Pinball

Allyn, WA

12y 184K 11,937 3 14

Finally got around to reading the VP forum posting. You don't really go into how you interfaced visual pinball logic to a real pinball machine, but I did find this daisy-chained I-pac photo interesting

024_controlunit[1].jpg

Can you explain at all how you accomplished this?

#10 11 years ago

DJG

nasco62

Pinside member

Sydney

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Way cool

#11 11 years ago

Bowman9

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Chester County, PA

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I understand the basics of how this machine was created using an i/o board and a PC running Visual Pinball, but how does it boot up?

Do you have to wait for windows to load, then open Visual Pinball and then launch the VP file? Or did you create some sort of executable file that does all that automatically?

#12 11 years ago

FRX

Frax

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Conyers, GA

12y 103K 16,662 2 9

Is that a remix of the Gyruss music? I had a Gyruss cocktail and loved the music but sounds a bit different lol. The blackout mode is sweet. I love that on pinball.

#13 11 years ago

ROG

rosve2020

Inactive member

Unknown City

11y 7,900 7

The PC and the other parts (transformer, speakers ...) are connected to Master/Slave Powerstrip with the PC as the Master. The On/Off button is mounted under the cabinet. Everything is powered up and started automatically by pushing this button. Push again and it all shuts down.
VP is launced automatically by a script in the Autostart folder. The total boot up time is aprox. 20 seconds.

I have several different Gyruss music remixes. It randomly selects witch one to play at the start of each "level"

What you see in the video is only one of the first play tests, I have developed the ruleset and tuned the table better since then .

The backglass is an LCD monitor that is displaying a B2S active backglass, a technology that I developed for Visual Pinball cabs.

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