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ive seen this pic somewhere before....didn't know you were on here
I personally am not a fan of the deco games.
Plain cabs, and they all run the games from a data tape. Back in the day the arcades had to turn on the deco games first as they took a long time to load.
Have fun with it.
someone is trying to work on deco.. tornadoboy posted he was looking for tapes and dongles a while ago..
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=205886&highlight=deco+tapes
Isn't DECO on the to-do list for Clay's ArcadeSD board?
Yep, although personally I'd still like to see as much original hardware preserved as possible, but it's certainly a great addition and bumps getting one of those boards WAY up my to-do list!
I haven't given up but I don't know if I have the electronics talent to get it to work, I am a much better builder than designer and a total newb at board hacking. I thought of using an Arduino driven WAV player as a solid state substitute for the tape but I don't think they'll support a high enough capture rate for audio data, my understanding it Arduinos aren't fast enough to handle anything over 22khz, and forget about anything MP3 driven doing the job, so I'm still at the drawing board. I don't care so much about having a multi available as much as I hate seeing rare original games get trashed or converted because of hardware flaws that might be correctable, so a simple way to substitute for the tape would be nice.
I think what I'm going to try to do is see if I can capture the tape data on my laptop at like 44khz and, providing that I can get it to work at all, see how much I can lower the quality and still have it work, then figure out the hardware to do it. Ideally the thing to do would be to figure out how to have the data stay perminantly loaded in an EPROM and hack the BIOs to allow that, which is my understanding what the Widel multi does amongst other things, but I can't even begin to figure that one out.