We’re back with a new episode of the Ben Heck Dot Com Podcast!
Our main topic today is “Hollywood is Full of Conservatives”. No, we’re not talking about the cast of The Expendables Part 9, rather how everyone in Hollywood is afraid of change, totally scared of taking any risk, and ruining movies in general with endless reboots, remakes and sequels.
We also discuss how this can actively hurt a film, such as the delays affecting Star Wars Episode 7 as a result of relying too heavily on a 71-year-old Han Solo.
We also discuss our E3 reactions, though neither of us had much of a reaction. Enjoy!
Not really debug anymore, just polishing stuff. You can open a serial terminal at 115200 baud on the USB programming jack to “talk” with the game. I’m beefing up what this can do, both for human-readable debugging, and using Bluetooth UART via a tablet or smartphone app.
Improved command parser for serial.
On serial terminal, added commands for servo control, SFX and music (see below)
Added one-shot switch status return, so tablet app can control rate at which it monitors switch data.
Improved main game titles, added vendor logos.
Improved attract mode PRESS START graphic (always thought it looked crappy before)
————-SERIAL MONITOR COMMAND LIST————-
[E99000] Get current switch state, raw data (2 bytes dedicated, 8 bytes matrix)
[E98000] Toggle serial stream of human-readable switch data
[E97000] Disable Ball Search (useful for testing)
[E97001] Enable Ball Search (default)
[F00ABC] Play sound effect ABC
[F00ZXX] Play music file XX (music files always in _DZ folder)
[F00Z00] Stop music
[V00ABC] Play video file ABC
[SXXzzz] Set servo XX (0-4) to ZZZ Degrees (Only set if you know proper values!)”
[MXXzzz] Activate Coil XX (0-23) for ZZZ Microseconds (0-250)
[LXXzzz] Set light XX (0-63) to ZZZ brightness (0-7)
[L99000] Disable light attract mode
[L99001] Enable light attract mode
