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Magnet throw on Twilight Zone


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Just trying to up my post count here (I've got a Hong Kong Famicom and Rainbow Islands PCB I want to try and sell) so I'd thought I'd recite a little anecdote, which was in one of the TOPCAST's:

 

Ted Estes was working on the TZ software and added a cool feature where the balls would be thrown round the loop via the loop magnets. Although he got it working on his table, it wouldn't work on Larry's, due to the placement of the opto's and magnets not being uniform. In the end they dropped the feature from the official software as they couldn't guarantee it would work across lots of different tables.

 

I've been working on replacement software for Twilight Zone (the FreeWPC project) and heard this story, so I decided to have a go at coding it. At the moment it works kinda, but I need to try it out on a few more tables before I can get the heuristics right:

 

p.s I showed that video to Ted Estes via Facebook and got a big up from him, felt pretty chuffed about that I can tell you!

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