A while ago I saw some pictures of people having an LCD screen connected to their PC showing all kinds of handy stuff. I was pretty impressed, even more when I read it was possible to display UT/Q3 information on it. The only problem was that I'm not really into FPS-games, more into race games. I though "wouldn't it be cool to have an LCD screen displaying information like speed/gears/RPM ect?". So here's what I got so far:
I've written a little program that get's the speed/gears/RPM data from the Colin McRae 3.0 demo and writes it to a .txt file. After that it's a piece of cake to get any LCD program to read it up and put it on the LCD screen. At the moment I'm using Smartie (this might be unknown for you, but the point is that you let your program read up the file). If you use a program that doesn't support reading up a file, get smartie here:
http://backupteam.gamepoint.net/smartie/
Ok, so here comes the problem: I don't own an LCD myself . So I'm looking for some people wanting to help me out on this.
First, download the program: http://racedriverhq.m4driving.sm/upload/reader.zip
IT'S A USE AT OWN RISK PROGRAM, so if you don't trust it, don't use it!
Second, download the CMR 3.0 demo:
http://www.gamershell.com/download_2356.shtml
DON'T PATCH THE DEMO, IT WILL ONLY WORK WITH THE ORIGINAL DEMO
Then run the program reader.exe. You can leave everything on the default.
Let smartie/your program read up the first line from the .txt file. The filename is C:\file.txt.
Then run the CMR 3.0 demo and check your lcd, if everything works you should be able to read your speed on your LCD. For the gears let Smartie/your program print line 2, for the RPM let it print line 3.
I only need someone to tell me if it works and if yes, how fast it works. I don't really mind some lag on the RPM value, but speed and gears should work without 2 seconds lag If it works I will order my own LCD so I can test everything out myself.
btw> I'm not really a fan of CMR3.0, but I just choose it because it's so easy to read up the values from the memory.
I've written a little program that get's the speed/gears/RPM data from the Colin McRae 3.0 demo and writes it to a .txt file. After that it's a piece of cake to get any LCD program to read it up and put it on the LCD screen. At the moment I'm using Smartie (this might be unknown for you, but the point is that you let your program read up the file). If you use a program that doesn't support reading up a file, get smartie here:
http://backupteam.gamepoint.net/smartie/
Ok, so here comes the problem: I don't own an LCD myself . So I'm looking for some people wanting to help me out on this.
First, download the program: http://racedriverhq.m4driving.sm/upload/reader.zip
IT'S A USE AT OWN RISK PROGRAM, so if you don't trust it, don't use it!
Second, download the CMR 3.0 demo:
http://www.gamershell.com/download_2356.shtml
DON'T PATCH THE DEMO, IT WILL ONLY WORK WITH THE ORIGINAL DEMO
Then run the program reader.exe. You can leave everything on the default.
Let smartie/your program read up the first line from the .txt file. The filename is C:\file.txt.
Then run the CMR 3.0 demo and check your lcd, if everything works you should be able to read your speed on your LCD. For the gears let Smartie/your program print line 2, for the RPM let it print line 3.
I only need someone to tell me if it works and if yes, how fast it works. I don't really mind some lag on the RPM value, but speed and gears should work without 2 seconds lag If it works I will order my own LCD so I can test everything out myself.
btw> I'm not really a fan of CMR3.0, but I just choose it because it's so easy to read up the values from the memory.
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