I’ve been playing with Gus Mueller’s LuaCore, which allows you to run and interact with Lua scripts from inside a Mac Cocoa application. It’s very helpful, but unfortunately the included “TestApp” is pretty simplistic and doesn’t demonstrate much more than simply executing code with LuaCore. Since I had a little trouble getting started, […]
Tonight I took the plunge and ordered two pieces of hardware: Power Driver Board for use with the PINMAME-HW project from AC Game Systems. Allows a PC to control up to 96 lamps and 32 solenoids through a parallel port. Ultimarc’s I-PAC Provides for 56 switch inputs via keyboard codes. Finding these two boards is pretty […]
John Gruber links to Michael Gartenberg’s brief story about getting called for comment on Apple/EMI’s announcement: Had another funny call with a media outlet this morning. When I called them back on the Apple/EMI news, first question was. “Do you think this is a bad thing for Apple and EMI.” When I said “no, […]
John compares UltraPin, the commercial pinball simulator, to real pinball in this GAPAS message: Pinball is to Ultrapin as Woman is to Inflatable Woman. The latter are more reliable, less apt to make a fool of you, and … they are “easier than the real thing”. Also, putting a new table on Ultrapin […]
