Re: SliMP3 emulator...of sorts

Sean Adams wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> This would certainly be possible - I was even thinking about this while I
> was working on the tool to generate GIF "screenshots" of the display.
> How about filing a feature request on sourceforge? I don't know if we have
> the cycles to work on it right now, but it'd be great to have this.

	I'll work on it - it probably wouldn't be too hard to modify my
emulator to do this. I was thinking of having the display program act
like a 'pass-through' SliMP3 - the SliMP3 would be pointed at the
displaying computer, not the server computer. Then the display program
would forward all packets to the server, and also parse the VFD
commands.

There are a couple issues, though:

	+ What OS will the 'displaying' computer be running (Windows, Mac,
Linux, etc)
	+ Will it be the same computer as the server is running on? That would
complicate things.

I *really* need to improve the VFD part of the emulator - it was enough
for server 1.5 (no custom characters), but not enough for the current
server.

- Jacob

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> On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, markbieg wrote:
> 
> > First, I want to say thanks for the constant improvements to the
> > SliMP3.  I got mine before Christmas.  I loved it then, but it keeps
> > getting better!
> >
> > I was wondering if there is a way to get realtime display of the
> > SliMP3 on another PC on the network.  Specifically, I have a
> > dedicated networked PC with video out to my TV and want to have the
> > SliMP3 VFD info displayed *realtime* in a window on the PC.  The
> > goal is to be able to use the remote to control the SliMP3 as
> > designed, but have the information displayed larger on the TV.  This
> > solves the problem of no video out from the MP3.  I assume it is (or
> > could be) possible for the server to serve the same information to
> > two devices.  In this case, the PC would simply be a "dummy" copy of
> > the actual SliMP3.
> >
> > Thanks.  Mark.

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