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http://www.nwlink.com/~scapino/Index.htm

Release History

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First Release v3.0 4-13-2002

Well, here it is. I gave my original EBC table the dark/fully rendered treatment, and VPM'd it.
This table requires VisualPinball 0.6.2806 or better,VPinMame 1.12 or better and VBS 3.02 files or better.

I also gave it the "hybrid" treatment, where I have my own large score displays. Making it a hybrid is very complicated(to much so, just for a custom display!) but I like the looks of it and it was interesting trying to interface with VPM.

As it stands, the hybrid display follows the real display fairly closely, but there is a small discrepancy in scoring, as VP reads switches all the time and the processor that VPM emulates(in its own software) will ignore a switch press for a certain period of time after a switch is hit.

I tried to get around this by locking out each switch as it is hit for a short period, and ganging the vp switch hits, and the VPM switch hits together.

It works fairly well, and the scores seem to be "close enough". It doesn't really matter as VPM really runs the show, and no matter how out of sync the "hybrid" display gets, the game will run and play fine.

Anyway, what happens when you first start the table, it looks to see if there is a VP save info section for EightBallChamp(there shouldnt be, because this is the first time I used the SaveInfo VP function in EBC.) I doesnt find it and loads defaults into the variables I'm useing to keep track of the available registers in the VPM game. At the start, both the nv ram file that VPM saves for this table, and the VPReg.stg file in the VP user directory should have the same data in it.

As you make adjustments to the game settings, or beat the high score...ect, the new values are saved to both places.

If things get really screwed up, just delete those two afore mentioned files, and the defaults will be restored.

The directions for running this game, and making adjustments are on the screen as needed. In the service mode, you can scroll through the listing of register settings with the page up and page down keys.

You really cant go wrong if you just set the balls per play to what you want, and maybe the high score to date, and the special scoring levels.

All the settings available on the real machine are available in service mode.

I'm sure you will find some bugs in my interface. Its so complex...I nearlly have all the code I need for a VP version allready done!

Feel free to e-mail me with your description of those nasty critters! :)

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Enjoy Eight Ball Champ!

Kurt Herman
scapino@nwlink.com
