Content Provider lucky1 Posted January 15 Content Provider Posted January 15 After 5 years working constantly on version 4.x and adding a lot of features without making a major release it is time to consider the current version as stable and bump the version number to 5.0. Here are the features that have been added to 4.x - add support for Raspberry Pi based Multimedia Interface (MMI) with highspeed access to display and input data - overall speedup with better Performance for existing colorization - add support for DotMation machines on PIN2DMD XL - add support for Capcom 256x64 ond PIN2DMD HD - add support for SysXDMD module allowing colorization of alphanumeric machines - add support for Sleic IOMoon (enhancer set to off) - 64 colors coloring support for all coloring modes and all device types that allow real time coloring without frame loss - fix various minor issues (details in 4.x commits) You can find the 5.x firmware for all pin2dmd hardware platforms here https://github.com/lucky01/pin2dmd V5.04 - add support for PIN2DMD MMI on DevEBox platform - add MMI interface to DevEBox V5.03 - fix MMI external RGB mode for 192x64 V5.02 - prepare PIN2DMD XL 192x64 firmware for MMI interface V5.01 - improve MMI handshake V5.00 - initial V.5x version - fix Sleic Bike Race sync
phoerber Posted January 20 Posted January 20 This has no comments or reactions??!! Awesome news, man. Thanks for all the work, especially excited to build a Pi enhanced Pin2DMD soon. Thanks man!
KiwiBri Posted February 1 Posted February 1 (edited) many many thanks @lucky1 feel that we've come a long ways since the days of 2.x versions when I started my VPin build. Pin2DMD was a game changer for my table . Thank you for all your work on this project over the many years. Congratulations on the milestone of v.5 Edited February 1 by KiwiBri
Content Provider lucky1 Posted March 25 Author Content Provider Posted March 25 V5.02 - prepare PIN2DMD XL 192x64 firmware for MMI interface V5.01 - improve MMI handshake
Content Provider lucky1 Posted April 10 Author Content Provider Posted April 10 V5.04 - add support for PIN2DMD MMI on DevEBox platform - add MMI interface to DevEBox V5.03 - fix MMI external RGB mode for 192x64
WanderLeonel Posted April 23 Posted April 23 Does it have to be the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W or can it be the Raspberry Pi Zero?
Content Provider malenko Posted May 2 Content Provider Posted May 2 How much has everything changed in the last couple years? Never finishing Getaway has really bugged the shit out of me but video mode killed it. New better editor for that? I know 64 colors is supported what else? fill in the old newb
phoerber Posted May 3 Posted May 3 16 hours ago, malenko said: How much has everything changed in the last couple years? Never finishing Getaway has really bugged the shit out of me but video mode killed it. New better editor for that? I know 64 colors is supported what else? fill in the old newb Dude!! Malenko lives!!!! Welcome back man!
Content Provider lucky1 Posted May 4 Author Content Provider Posted May 4 On 5/3/2026 at 1:57 AM, malenko said: How much has everything changed in the last couple years? Never finishing Getaway has really bugged the shit out of me but video mode killed it. New better editor for that? I know 64 colors is supported what else? fill in the old newb Welcome back ! Getaway Video mode was done by "Newbie" with Layered Color Mode. His posts and his work was removed by his request. I think he passed it to NetzZwerg but not sure about that. Upgradeing / replaceing graphics to HD (256x64) is also possible due to PIN2DMD HD panels.
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