Pinball 2k project

chuck

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Apr 27, 2007, 8:38:40 PM4/27/07

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Don W. and I have been doing some research on how to run 2k code on a
normal pc without a prism board. Our reason for doing is the lack of
replacement prism boards. The goal is to provide people with code
that they could load on a standard pc to run their 2k machine. It
would be a total computer replacement. I have contacted a number of
people asking for any insight they might have.

We have done a lot of research so far and have emulation code for most
of the systems. Some insight into the prism board would be wonderful
though.

Thanks

thetoycol...@yahoo.com

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Apr 27, 2007, 9:48:55 PM4/27/07

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That is a really good idea if you could get it done. Are you talking
about having a hardrive on this thing? I thought it would be a good
idea to have a computer that could both run SW and RFM without swaping
cards or computers. Running codes for these games are not going to be
a easy thing to do however. People underrate how much fun these games
are but troubles with the prism card scares some folks away.

Nwojedi

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Apr 27, 2007, 9:51:49 PM4/27/07

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use a flash stick. Would eliminate any HD problems and faster access
of data. Great idea, and would open up a lot of potential for custom
games being made.

thetoycol...@yahoo.com

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Apr 27, 2007, 9:55:03 PM4/27/07

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Now that's a good idea. It would have to be one hell of a stick though.

chuck

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Apr 27, 2007, 11:15:00 PM4/27/07

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There are a couple of big hurdles before we would get to that
point. ;-)

Kickthefog

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Apr 27, 2007, 11:30:50 PM4/27/07

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I wish you the best and you certainly have my support! I'm picking up
a revenge from mars and a swep kit to go with it and that darn prism
card is the only thing that has me worried a bit. Please keep us
posted! and THANKS for your efforts!

Craig Tiano

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Apr 30, 2007, 12:23:37 AM4/30/07

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I believe the prism card exists only to provide rom that appears to be
a block-mode disk device. i.e., it looks like a hard disk drive to the
bios, so when the bios sees it during POST, it executes its
initialization sequence, which then loads the actual operating system
from rom.

Craig

chuck

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Apr 30, 2007, 12:52:16 PM4/30/07

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On Apr 30, 12:23 am, Craig Tiano <c...@vandenplas.com> wrote:
> I believe the prism card exists only to provide rom that appears to be
> a block-mode disk device. i.e., it looks like a hard disk drive to the
> bios, so when the bios sees it during POST, it executes its
> initialization sequence, which then loads the actual operating system
> from rom.
>
> Craig
>

> On 27 Apr 2007 17:38:40 -0700, chuck <c...@source9.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> >Don W. and I have been doing some research on how to run 2k code on a
> >normal pc without a prism board. Our reason for doing is the lack of
> >replacement prism boards. The goal is to provide people with code
> >that they could load on a standard pc to run their 2k machine. It
> >would be a total computer replacement. I have contacted a number of
> >people asking for any insight they might have.
>
> >We have done a lot of research so far and have emulation code for most
> >of the systems. Some insight into the prism board would be wonderful
> >though.
>

> >Thanks- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

As I understand currently the prism card also provides DCS2 sound
capability. Still digging for info.