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[erikie]

Its working on my real machine. Played first game. Well the display was showing on my desk. Will connect it using an extra cable. Not easy and there are some performance penalties but it is working

Using a modern motherboard with pci express lpt port

[toxie]

What.. How cool is that!! 

 

How large is the perf penalty? Unplayable or okayish?

[erikie]

What.. How cool is that!! 
 
How large is the perf penalty? Unplayable or okayish?

Well it was not slow but could be faster. Have some ideas to improve but already playable

[erikie]

What.. How cool is that!! 
 
How large is the perf penalty? Unplayable or okayish?

Well it was not slow but could be faster. Have some ideas to improve but already playable

Just changed my code a little and use a start proces to gain control over io. Much better now. Next week will start on DCS code

Edited by erikie, 08 September 2023 - 10:06 AM.

[erikie]

I replaced my nucore emulator with my own one in my pinball machine. It works very smooth incl DCS emulation
This means that even wizard blocks can be run with all original sounds
At the moment working on getting the serial ports work so also the terminal is available

[toxie]

Super cool! Did you get your hands on the wizard blocks ROMs?

[Tomsterr]

I replaced my nucore emulator with my own one in my pinball machine. It works very smooth incl DCS emulation
This means that even wizard blocks can be run with all original sounds
At the moment working on getting the serial ports work so also the terminal is available

Any updates on your progress? I would love to be a tester and try it out in my RFM cabinet.

[erikie]

It is working pretty good in my own machine. Going to make installation scripts and installation manual. You can install it if you want and see how it works
What kind of hardware are you going to use?

[erikie]

I have started a topic on pinside for my emulator. If you are interested in the progress look here:

https://pinside.com/...l-2000-emulator

[toxie]

Nice, thanks!!

[erikie]

I am working on a native compilation of pinball 2000 software. It already runs and talks to my driver board.
If I can port my code to windows it might be possible to connect this to a pinball emulator? So virtual p2k?

[Themer]

Maybe it's time to start looking into emulation with a virtual machine. Especially with the current pinball machines running for a large part on Unix based operating systems. That way you wouldn't have to port your code to Windows either.

[toxie]

Update: By now, we got a PR for PinMAME that added rudimentary support for Pin2K machines. After a lot of additional fixes, cleanups, debugging, optimizations, adding more sets, and reading public docs to tweak things and comparing to the real thing, we now have a kinda faithful and 'fast enough' (some things can still be hopefully done there though) emulation!

Final fixes to make the early sets and the very newest sets work correctly just dropped today, so time for alpha/beta testing of Pin2K: https://github.com/v...7.0-407-7bc6f62

(note that the 64bit version(s) are substantially faster)

 

EDIT: updated link with some more optimizations

Edited by toxie, 19 August 2026 - 07:47 PM.

[Joe]

setup64 is getting an virus or potentially unwanted software popup when trying to run.

[toxie]

Must be a false positive, try virustotal if this also triggers there.

Its all generated by the github actions/pipelines.

[unclewilly]

So will this take care of the video as well as the switch and s9lenoid calls?
If so where is the video displayed, on dmd like baby pacman.

[unclewilly]

Also which rfm and se1 roms are working

[toxie]

Yes, everything works, exactly the same as all other PinMAME emulated machines do, should be not special in any way (otherwise please let me know, cause then its a bug!).

All sets that are available/known also fully work, including all aftermarket/homebrew sets and prototype/factory prism board sets.

 

As for the display: Thats a bit special, as there is no data path for VPM via core.vbs for full RGB stuff. So in that case, its similar like Granny and the Gators or Baby Pacman.  :/

 

BUT: If one uses a 10.8.1 beta (i just created a new pre-release here that includes the newest PinMAME plugin with the latest optimizations, too: https://github.com/v...-5436-af26b2d93 , recommended on windows is VPinballX_BGFX-10.8.1-5436-af26b2d93-windows-x64-Release.zip ) then one can use the screen via the pinmame plugin (enable it in the ingame menu, set data path to pinmame directory) and a flasher (in 3D or backdrop view), set its rendering style to Display, and set its source to 

ctrl: // pinmame / display       (remove spaces!!)

 and the screen will be featured there, and you can blend it over the playfield.

Edited by toxie, 21 August 2026 - 06:00 AM.

[toxie]

Quick test using JPs ARFM:   (as on the real world machine, only the upper/middle part would need much less lighting, otherwise difficult to see the overlay)

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Edited by toxie, 21 August 2026 - 08:59 AM.

[unclewilly]

Sweet