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Electronics Noritake 128x64 VFD technical thread

Discussion in 'Modding' started by linear, 13 Jan 2003.

  1. Henri

    Henri What's a Dremel?

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    Are you still working with assembly ?

    If C code is of any help I've made some example code for PIC that shows moving bars on the display:
    http://www.picant.com/c2c/examples/noritake/noritake.c.html
     
  2. ChriX

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  3. tomd

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    anybody have a copy of LiQuiD MP3 they could email me? their site seems to be down...

    with the MPXPlay, could you post your entire ini for it? For me it just flashes the C: drive thing at the beginning, and shows nothing after that.

    TIA
    tom
    pyrotom85@yahoo.com
     
  4. PrimusSucks

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    The ini file from the mpxplay site should work.
     
  5. tomd

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    i was using that one, just the changes in the txt with the modified exe
     
  6. Henri

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    http://liquid-mp3.schijf.org seems to be working fine for me.



    Ok, here are all of the LCD configuration part from the mpxplay.ini. As you can see you are able to configure yourself what you want to see on the display. This one just shows the same thing multiple times.



    ChriX: Any luck with your ASM code ?
     
  7. ChriX

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    I'm currently in the process of re-writing the whole lot. :lol:
     
  8. tomd

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    Thanks Henri, was finally able to D/l LiQuiD MP3 again, site must have come back up. And the MPXPlay works too, i just had a loose connection on a wire, all better now.
     
  9. OKANG

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  10. yarvieh

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    henry is being lazy again (more or less just like me :) ) so i whipped up some code..

    Please note the following:

    It is test of several new code idea's I got, so please let me know if it's working for you or not..

    It is console application and does not need dlportio or winio and it should run on any w2k/xp box with administration account after setting the right privileges (program does this automaticly)

    It adds the 'allow to act as part of operating privilege to everyone' if you are in a production enviroment this is nog a good thing to do so please keep this in mind that it does this.

    It only runs on the noritake 800a using the liquid mp3 wiring.

    it should also ready pretty much any file you throw at it.

    it has a floyd-steinberg dither, a 2x2 dither and a 3x3 dither..

    it comes with one movie of butterflies if you want more grab 'm at

    http://www.pioneer.co.jp/car/pclink/movies-e.html

    it does *NOT* read the ilk files just feed it the gif preview and you will be fine..

    if anybody has any other cool movies please post 'm here!!

    Link to program
     
  11. PrimusSucks

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    I'd like to see some pix of the display working with MPXPLAY if someone would be some kind. Maybe seeing it in action would get me motivated again.
     
  12. yarvieh

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  14. ZapWizard

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    Well I bought this display way back when everyone else did.

    I got it working now, and love the GIF player.
    When you find a good GIF file please post it here
    (Link only)
     
  15. tomd

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    Man, i install Linux, and its being great, and now you guys have new software to play with the displays, i s'pose i'm gonna have to install windoze again....oh well
     
  16. yarvieh

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  17. Morphine

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    now how leet would the matrix look on a VFD with a green filter? lol any limit as to what size files this program can play?
     
  18. yarvieh

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    Not really, seems to crash everytime you hit ctrl-break but other then that it has played pretty much any avi a threw at it.
     
  19. ZapWizard

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    I got the DIVX player, works very well.
    I noticed the video is a bit too fast.

    I am using the GIF progam though to put a custom animation loop on the screen.
     
  20. tomd

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    You rule!

    I tried to watch the original Matrix on my VFD, didn't work out real well ;-)

    Nice work, and yes, the DivX one crashed every time i quit.
     

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