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Use the GAZ emulator program and an old laptop with a decent XVGA screen. Then put it in a "shadow box" made of plywood angled to your desired view point. Paint the interior flat black.

http://www.phoenix-sports.com/soft_alge.htm

The GAZ emulator will turn an pc into an "ALGE" display to work with the ALGE.lss script.

Nice tip... I will check it out. How does it look in the daylight?

Hi Have used my lcd monitor ViewSonic 19' connected to my laptop to display results in excel & visual basic software without shadow under sun ligth and its difficult to see the information, but this was fixed only modifing the contrast and bright directly into lcd monitor panel.

As long as you have the NCP plug-in you can also use HyperTerminal and any PC. Simply use the Example.lss script.

I have a problem that I hope you can help me with. I am attempting to run the GAZ-EMU emulator (v2.03) as a scoreboard running from a FinishLynx system (v7.23e).

I can get the time of day to display (although the hours do not display). And, I can get the results to scroll in a single line, (without the places, and on the second line) but I am unable to get the times to display to more than one line.

I am using the FinishLynx Network COM Port plug-in. I switching between the UDP and COM1 port settings and had identical results. I fiddled with the FinishLynx options, including changing the Paging size, but was unable to get the display to change.

Here's a link to an screen shot that displays the FinishLynx scoreboard options and the GAZ-EMU with it's debug form.

http://picasaweb.google.com/ju...#5331619340053989090

I am using the Alge.lss script. Is that the script I should using? Do I need to modify that script?

I appreciate your help. -- Justin

justin -

Has nothing to do with paging ,etc.

I looked at the GAZ-EMU as a track scoreboard emulator last year. Its a really cool program. The 10 boards are all addressed differently (A-J if I remember correctly) and you need to modify the lynx scipt to send the appropriate characters to GAZ. The communication protocol is published by Alge.

However I did run into a snag on two areas. I gave up at that point.

-No way in Lynx script language to parse out specific data to set board addresses (for example place 1 on top board, place 2 info on second board, etc, etc. This is typical of track scoreboards. Swimming and Ski events I guess use ranking boards which are somewhat different - not sure.

-Lynx outputs data of less than 60 seconds as mm.ss and GAZ needs a ":" I tried everyway possible with the GAZ custom protocol setup to get around this but could not fully solve it for all boards. No way can Lynx send the time as 00:mm.ss

For a single line (top) it worked if I remember...I ended up writing my own program in Excel to read the Lynx serial data and display athlete place, name, team, time, running time, etc.

I think I have the lss file around someplace.

hope this helps...

Vince

Hi, does anyone know if is there something equivalent for Microgate? =) It would be very helpfull for me!


THX

Davide

Dirk,

The UDP ports that you saw in the Picasa photo is part of the Network COM Port plugin. We purchased the plugin from FinishLynx (list price ~ $500) in order to run a Daktronics Galazy AE-3140 scoreboard. With the UDP COM Port plugin, you can use a single scoreboard script in FinishLinx to display on multiple scoreboards.

Hope this helps. -- Justin

Thanks Justin,

just aber sending my post, I saw that at FinishLynx website.

$500 is a very expensive price for an network COM port.
But on the other hand: if it works for shure...

I tried the GAZ-EMU with an external network com port (http://www.network-serial-port.com) - but this was not working 100%.
I tried to transfer the daytime - but even if the debugger shows the full time transfered, only minutes and seconds were displayed.

Ciao

dirk