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I use compact flash cards in all of my demo systems. If you're really worried about vibrations affecting a hard drive, use an SSD or flash card. Pinball 2000 used computers 20 years ago, the backbox has had electronic circuit boards even longer than that. Dust, vibration, heat, and high voltage? None of these are issues. Use whatever works best for your application. It can be anything from a single board computer to a full-fledged sever system. Yes, the P-ROC requires a separate computing element. FreeWPC is written in mostly C, with a very small amount of ASM and a dash of Perl in the build system. If you want to play around with FreeWPC but don't have a real table or access to an EPROM burner, you can just load the ROM into Visual Pinball.
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Also the P-ROC project is coded in mostly Python.įreeWPC requires NO EXTRA HARDWARE whatsoever, you simply download the software and burn it to a blank EPROM in exactly the same way you would with factory software.
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P-ROC requires that you spend $325 USD on a board, then you have to spend another couple hundred on a single board PC that isn't going to crap itself when exposed to the dust, vibration, heat and high voltages in a pinball table. FreeWPC was written by Brian Dominy over the course of many, many years (8 and counting).Īlthough both projects have similar aims (rewriting game rules for pinball) they are worlds apart in implementation:
P-ROC and FreeWPC are two totally separate projects and FreeWPC was almost certainly not written by the P-ROC group. Looks very cool, especially when linked up to his open souorce "FreeWPC programming enviroment"Īnother necro-post here, but I'd like to clear up some factual errors in this thread: The P-ROC environment does abstract the hardware, so it is still complex but you are concentrating mainly on game code, not having to worry about switch matrix scanning, solenoid timings etc, so it is definitely a good step forward for homebrewers.
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If you look "under the bonnet" at the code that runs non pin-mamed v-pin games - yikes! complex code galore :) If you want a early 80's SS style game, then you could make a graphical click and drop programming environment - but for a complex game, you are going to have to think like a programmer unfortunately. I think it is the nature of the beast - they will be "difficult" to program if you want complex rules and features. That said, I believe someone is working on linking V.Pinball and the P-roc together and THAT is when this unit would really be big news. I think the P-roc will be fantastic when the software supports easy rule sets and game desgin - having quickly looked at the documentation, I looks difficult to program. This Thursday’s recommendation is to check out the beautiful work of World Bicycle Relief. Corporate communication like story-telling and takes more thoughtfulness than just dropping another quarter into the slot. It gives you another opportunity to play at your best so long as you plan. As a leader, every event is a change event. The good news is that you have more control over your message than playing pinball.
So you try to shake it to where you want it to go, but end up tilting the machine. Then, when it’s too late, you realize you need to gain control of your message. Its frenetic pace will leave your team, stakeholders, and customers confused. It will ding and ping its way through your peloton. If you don’t control your message, the message will control you. But staying in front of your message is hard work. To me, pinball was fun, but it’s chaos as a communication strategy.Īs a leader, you may think that an email, town hall meeting, or media interview will give you all the message control you need. To be honest, I wasn’t that great at it - but I had enthusiasm. But I didn’t - the ball went where it wanted to go.
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Throw in a little of The Who’s “Pinball Wizard,” and I thought I had full control of the ball’s movement through my two little flippers and exaggerated body language. The faster the pace, the better the game in my book. I loved the frenetic dinging and pinging sounds of pinball. Hey, nothing says healthy like a few more hours in a smoke filled bowling hall. Well anywho, after my Saturday morning league, I would spend my time feeding quarters into video games like Galaga and the pinball machines at the bowling alley’s arcade. Hmmm - that may have been too much information.
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I even watched the Pro Bowlers Tour every week on T.V. I had my own monogrammed bowling balls, shoes, and shirts.
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