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Prisma Puzzle Timer

theace said:
OFF TOPIC: Does anyone know what the little "Stackmat Sim" program was? It runs in the background and activates your timer when you press 2 keys instead of the spacebar.
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You can do this in both CCT and Prizma. For CCT just go to your options and you can configure which two keys to use. For Prizma, go to Options -> Timer Trigger -> CTRL Keys. You have to press both CTRL keys (then let off of them) in order for the timer to stop, same with stopping the timer.


Feature Request:

This might be a tad bit difficult, but it's something I would definitely find useful. You have a list of solutions for the optimal cross, awesome! Now what if you were to make a way to show Extended Cross, or Optimal Cross + First pair. What I mean by First Pair is that it does not necessarily solve the x-cross, but it sets up a pair into a nice R U R'/R U' R type insertion (so it makes the pair and preserves it in the layer opposite the cross). It wouldn't even have to preserve that pair in U (if cross is in D), but maybe to where the pair is preserved in an F2L slot, or preserved into an F2L slot but inverted (so the pair is pointing up instead of down) and it wouldn't need to be in the correct slot either.

If that didn't make sense, I'll rephrase it. Would you be able to find a way that when making the cross, if it sees a pair that it can preserve, or make then preserve, could you show those solutions? I've been working on this a little bit, and most crosses it's quite easy to influence first pairs. It allows for a great transition from cross to F2L.

I suppose after you do this, you could do it for other methods as well. Showing first block for Roux, first block for Petrus, and edge orientation for ZZ.

Again, I'm not sure how difficult this would be, but it would definitely make for a nice feature!
 
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I can't get my stackmat timer to work on my mac. It looks like it is related to the input line not being powered on a mac, can anyone confirm this? Anyone with a mac have their's working?
 
Have you made sure to check all of your audio settings? I often use my microphone with some VOIP applications, and I have to ensure to select "line in" as my recording device whenever I want to cube (using my stackmat). Make sure you have your line-in set to be what you are recording from, or plug your stackmat into your microphone jack.
 
fatboyxpc said:
Have you made sure to check all of your audio settings? I often use my microphone with some VOIP applications, and I have to ensure to select "line in" as my recording device whenever I want to cube (using my stackmat). Make sure you have your line-in set to be what you are recording from, or plug your stackmat into your microphone jack.
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I don't use my audio for anything (besides playing music). In Prisma Timer, I only have one selection I can make. I already went into MIDI and turned everything up but still can not get it to work.

When I tried to record sound with Audacity, I got noting when it was running. When I pull the Mic plug out or push it in, it makes a sound (recorded in Audacity). The headphone jack make no sound when plug is inserted or removed. It seems to be an amplification issue. But nevertheless, I can not get it to work.

Any other ideas?
 
I think there is a problem with the megaminx scrambler, all offical scrambles at the end of each lise, it is either D++ U or D-- U' but on this progam it seems to be random. Am I correct?
 
Tertius: If when you have your stackmat plugged in (and powered on), if you don't hear the (very annoying) sound either in Audacity or through your speakers, you need to check all of your audio settings (for recording, not playback). What OS do you have installed? I can help you out with this, but should probably take it over to PMs at this point. Send me a PM with your OS, Preferably sound card drivers, and also preferably a picture of your sound card (integrated or not, but so I can see which jacks you have to work with. At the very least tell me the colors of the circles around each jack and what text it has above/below each jack).
 
I have two suggestions:

1.) It should be possible to "unselect" solves in the history. So when you select a few solves in the history, there is no simple way to get back to the default selection of all solves. Of course there are workarounds (select all with "Shift"; or select one solve, then unselect it with "STRG"), but I think the selection should at least reset whenever you close the history, what it does not.

2.) As most people probably use the same color scheme for all their cubic puzzles, 2x2 through 7x7, you could maybe implement a simple button like "Apply Rubik's Cube settings to all cubic puzzles" or add a button below "edit" and "default", although the last option would require to select every single color of every single cube, so that won't be a good one, shouldn't have written that down...

Just my 2 cents, but anyway a great timer, I will definitely stick to it from now on.
 
I got it to work. Thank you to all who helped, especially fatboyxpc.

My computer was not receiving a signal from the Stackmat Timer. I worked with my setting but could not seem to get it right. I then bought another cord (mono) and tried it again. It did not seem to not fix the issue but I noticed that my computer was receiving a signal from the Stackmat Timer.

In the end, I had to turn down the input volume (was all of the way up) and replace my cord to get the Stackmat Timer to work with Prisma Timer.

The first cord is in the trash and was the stereo 3.5 to 2.5 DealExtreme $0.97 (that was recommended on this site in a couple of places. I probably got a bad one but something to always keep in mind.

*Separate Issue*

I am not sure if it has been covered but my Stackmat Timer and the stored time are the same but the large display time is wrong. The display time does not revert to the correct stored time. Not a big issue but would be for videos.
 
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