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[russdx]

i should really make a little video showing the difference between a real DMD and a crappy lcd

[RNunez187]

[ArcadiusMaximus]

I have a few questions. Can you say which vishey display will work the best with the new board or which one you would reccomend ( orange color). I remember reading about people having issues with certain displays with the first release of this board.

Also, my main reason for investing in this is to help cure my stutter problems. They arent very often but theyre there. I know stutter depends on a lot of different factors but have any of your previous customers reports increased frame rates using this methoad as opposed to a 3rd monitor. If it helps am running windows 7 with a gtx 460(playfield back glass) gts 250 (dmd) i5 2500k adn 4gb of ram ( soon to be 8gb). Thanks, very excited for this board. Im loving everyones demo videos ! Just when you thought a virtual pin cab couldnt get any cooler

[russdx]

there was a slight ghosting problem with the 0603 LED vishay DMD's but this has been resolved with the latest firmware update (slight timing issue on my part). as far as im aware all DMD's apart from Cherry Plasma works great.

i haven't checked recently but i don't think you can even buy the 0603 Display any more, if you can every one has hiked the price up so much its pointless buying it any way.

i would recommend the orange 8x8 matrix style displays that Noah has in store at virtuapin.net for a very reasonable price.


pinDMD removes the stutters because you are not using the third graphics card any more. pinMAME just makes somes usb write calls here and there to update the pinDMD all safely wrapped up in a separate thread

[russdx]

getting some nice dark shades with this stm32 hardware can get the led almost off lol i remember a few ppl mentioning they wanted darker shades well this version has them

[Aurich]

Noah just said the latest batch of DMD orders is hopefully only a couple weeks out, can't wait to have something to plug my first gen pinDMD into finally.

[ArcadiusMaximus]

there was a slight ghosting problem with the 0603 LED vishay DMD's but this has been resolved with the latest firmware update (slight timing issue on my part). as far as im aware all DMD's apart from Cherry Plasma works great.

i haven't checked recently but i don't think you can even buy the 0603 Display any more, if you can every one has hiked the price up so much its pointless buying it any way.

i would recommend the orange 8x8 matrix style displays that Noah has in store at virtuapin.net for a very reasonable price.


pinDMD removes the stutters because you are not using the third graphics card any more. pinMAME just makes somes usb write calls here and there to update the pinDMD all safely wrapped up in a separate thread

Cool ! Although I should of said I do use an LEDwiz, which seems to be simulatneously a god send and a thorn in my side when it comes to stutter. So even after adding a real DMD Im wondering if the LEDwiz would still introduce some stutter.

I've checked out the displays on Noahs site and the lead time ( not his fault) really sucks on these things . Actually 6-8 isnt as bad as say the 10 week lead time mouser has on them . I wonder if all the displays are spoken for...

[russdx]

im not 100% sure how the ledwiz works but from what iv read its the way its been coded in the vb scirpt that adds the stutters, if the code was moved to a threaded application there would be no stutters!

the pinDMD does not add any stutters at all!!! its completely threaded.

[ArcadiusMaximus]

Any updates as to when these maybe available to order?

[russdx]

Not at this time, board is still in development

[Bluebook]

Have signed up Russ because I missed the boat on v1 ! It's just amazing how VP in general continues to develop! - fantastic work matey! Would these by ready for Christmas? I guess I should also start looking for an LED DMD soon - As a fellow 'Brit' any good UK stores/links or should I order from here?

[russdx]

Thanks

Im hoping to have them ready around/just after Christmas

virtuapin.net is prob your best bet for a display, or pinled if your uk/europe

i got my pinled from
http://www.pinballdisplays.co.uk/
or for an all out original plasma dmd (pricy lol)
http://uk.mouser.com...pc7dGksEUtLyZo=

[Arcade4]

Just saw this thread today.
I'm signing up as well. The first board was awesome, and I love upgrades.

[russdx]

little update

firmware is now pretty much complete, it runs perfectly at 60fps / 16shades absolutely flicker free
just waiting for my prototype pcb's to turn up so i can get them sent off for assembly to make sure the new hardware is ok.

if all goes well hope to have a first batch of 100 by early jan next year hopefully sooner

[ArcadiusMaximus]

Whoo Hoo ! Just in time for my Vishey LED display. Thanks for the update !

[Hyper]

Hello Russel,

That's good news!!!
Do you already know anything about it's price?

Regards, Ton

[russdx]

Same as the original one

[Slydog43]

wow this great news, Thanks for the update Russ

[unclewilly]

How are you doing the distribution order. Will it be based on the order in which we registered on your site.
Id like to get in on the first run of boards.
Is snotz helping you with the .dll?

[russdx]

ill be making 100 so should be plenty i think around 52 ppl have added there name to the interest list on the site

yup snots is helping out with the .dll, the new board will be libusb based not ftdi, all this means is you install a different driver