Category Archives: Pinball

A Manufacturer-Supported Pinball Mod Community

Pinball News has an interview with pinball player and Valve game designer Cayle George, in which he states: One of the biggest things I think is missing from pinball, that is often encouraged in video games, is a mod community … Continue reading

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P-ROC in Gameroom Magazine

We were at a friend’s house last weekend when he brought this Gameroom magazine article to my attention: a blurb about P-ROC, including an excerpt of the Pinball News article. It’s nice to see the project getting a little press, … Continue reading

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P-ROC/pyprocgame December Video Demo

Tonight I cut together some footage of the latest pyprocgame code (see my previous post on pyprocgame). The result is available on YouTube. The music is lunar FREAK on by ast0r, who I found out about through Andy Baio’s amazing … Continue reading

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Introduction to pyprocgame

Gerry Stellenberg’s P-ROC became available today and I thought this would be a good time to write about the open source software that’s written to work with it. First, though, I want to talk about what P-ROC is and what … Continue reading

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Driving a Pinball DMD with an Arduino Microcontroller

For quite some time now I’ve been interested in developing my own pinball machine. Obviously this is a massive endeavor. Before I happened across the P-ROC project, over the course of several days in April of 2007 I did some … Continue reading

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