What's going on ?

[Aeneas Verhé]

Just wondered what's going on with everyone who was working with freewpc..

I've stopped a long time ago on the cactus canyon implementation (never installed it on a real machine, only tested in on visual pinball) because of personal reasons, and as there's the CCC p-roc project.

The last weeks I got interested again in picking the project further up..

What's the status of the freewpc framework ? Are updates still being done or is it stopped ?

ciao,

  Aeneas.

[Dominic Clifton]

I’ve been working on quadcopter flight control software recently, my corvette was sold, i still have an AFM but no time for FreeWPC.  Last time I checked Brian was working for Highway Pinball where FreeWPC was being used.

Dominic

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[Brian Dominy]

Yes, I have been programming with Heighway Pinball for nearly 4 years
now. This has kept me busy enough. FreeWPC taught me a lot about
making pinball games and I'm trying to apply that now to Heighway's
offerings. I doubt I should return to making new games with it.
James Cardona author of Demolition Time has also stopped development
so I don't think there are any real users anymore.

- Brian

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[Phillip Eaton]

I find this a great shame, I see it having great potential - it clearly has as it's (sort off) powering an (almost) production game. I'm surprised there were not more completed games released using it, I guess coders have a short attention span :-)

Personally, if I were looking to build my own game (maybe one day), I'd still give it a shot.

I don't know if FreeWPC is the basis of HP's OS, but if it sort of is, it'd be great if they open sourced it...

Phil

[Brian Dominy]

There are parts of FreeWPC in Heighway Pinball's system. Only code
which I wrote myself and which I relicensed to Heighway for specific
uses. That doesn't invalidate the existing open source code in any
way.

Many changes have been made to that code, and much new code was added,
all of which are owned by Heighway. They will decide what to do with
them. But I don't see open source happening anytime soon.

- Brian

[Cardona, James E.]

I stopped developing basically because I stuck a stick in the sand and called Demolition Time done. You have to stop somewhere right? Hats off to Brian for developing such a great system and making it open source. I learned a lot playing with it. At some point I was considering using it for another machine but have really run out of time. Additionally, I like the idea of using a fast system or PROC for the idea of being able to use an LCD screen instead of a DMD. If I do pick back up, that will be the direction I move in.

For me I think freewpc is a great platform and is ready to go if you want to pick back up on it. Feel free to look at any of my code and ask questions about it.
Jim



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There are parts of FreeWPC in Heighway Pinball's system. Only code which I wrote myself and which I relicensed to Heighway for specific uses. That doesn't invalidate the existing open source code in any way.

Many changes have been made to that code, and much new code was added, all of which are owned by Heighway. They will decide what to do with them. But I don't see open source happening anytime soon.

- Brian

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