russdx

Ah I follow, sounds like the emu knows nothing about the asic or the bus as it only needs the memory map. Sounds like your right would need to get a logic analyser out and see what’s happening on that bus. Let’s say that part was decoded and we could control real hardware via the bus by sending dummy packets. How would this be connected to the emulator? Can it be edited?

Not these days, mondeo = Mercedes

Ah did not know the ASIC controlled the bus, what a pain, and this will be some custom chip not an off the shelf thing? Good to know it can run on a raspberry pi though How would the ASIC be reverse engineered? monitor the signals going in and then see what comes out? Or would you skip it completely and just monitor the bus and see what commands are sent around it to control the little daughter boards. From memory the daughter boards did not have many chips regarding the bus so guessing its quite a basic protocol its using to talk to them? I am in the same boat with young children, hobbies go out the window

The whole thing runs on the little ribbon cable bus so you only need 1 interface (same as on the original epoch board) the rest of the hardware all talks via this so should all come for free. If that interface was emulated then hooked up to real hardware the machine would just think its talking to a real epoch board? not an emulator.

Have been thinking about this ever since the emulator supported epoch, because all the actual driver hardware is on the bus system and the main cpu board basically just handles audio and the game roms / dip switches, could the epoch emulator talk to real hardware via some hardware interface? I assume the emulator skips the bus part of thing and just reads memory maps to see what should be happening? But could the bus interface be emulated as well and hook it up to a real machine? Could we run a real machine using a raspberry pi or something? (would be pretty cool) Just an idea

What software are you using to build all the 3D? My fav cab of all time is the Maygay Epoch one

This is incredible! Really want to make all the impulse games like Hurricane, Funny Money etc... Would love to make my own arcade full of my fav games.

RIP buddy Your emulator got me into the industry I work in to this day! Will always appreciate that :) Russell