[Coco] Coco Arcade machine

[rietveld rietveld]

Walter you are brilliant. I just took a PC keyboard apart and mounted it under the control deck. I have a button push the (f5).    Thanks

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From: Walter Zambotti
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You might need add a custom keyboard.

https://hackaday.com/2016/06/12/quickie-usb-keyboard-device/

 I believe you can design any number of keys you need.

The example 4 key keyboard would give you :

F5 - soft reset
F9 - hard reset
F11 - Full screen mode
F? - something else

Walter

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From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of rietveld rietveld
Sent: Wednesday, 2 January 2019 11:56 PM
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Subject: [Coco] Coco Arcade machine

Just need some input and advice please

I have an Rampage arcade1up machine that I turned into a Coco arcade machine

I replaced the original display with a LG flat screen monitor. I have an Intel Atom compute stick attached via HDMI.   The joystick and two of the buttons are connected to the Intel stick with a USB adapter
‎I have the Intel stick auto booting to VCC and have VCC automatically launching a VHD image with SIDEKICK as the GUI.   This version of SIDEKICK has been modified to allow the joystick to be used to navigate the MENU; just the same as SDCX.
I built a custom VHD image making sure to only include games that DID NOT require any keyboard input to play. i.e. no games that request a level number or another keyboard input.

My only problem now is how to do a soft/hard reset of vcc or the stick when a user wants to play a different game.



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