5 Dec
2003
5 Dec
'03
9:45 a.m.
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 19:40, Bryan Pope wrote:
And thusly Jason McBrien spake:
>
> My brother-in-law's MAME cabinet features a 27" screen, dual
Sounds like a nice spring project!! Is there any good
places on the web
that sell/have plans for arcade cabinets?
Indeed it does! I have a 'proper' old goldfish-bowl style 19" ex-Sun
monitor that's reserved for just such a cabinet one day, when space
permits (as I want the authentic feel of the cabinet too, not a newer
flat screen). I had it running happily with the DOS version of MAME a
couple of years ago (which also had the advantage over Windows / Linux
that it could just be switched off without the need to be shut down)
Last time I had a serious look at this (and had a homebrew cocktail
cabinet machine up and running with a 15" screen) there were ROMs and
plans aplenty out on the 'net for download. One problem I found was that
I could find nowhere in the UK to supply the 'proper' big round
pushbutton controls as used on the old arcade machines - all the ones
sold here were too small.
I had a quick look on the 'net about a year ago though, and it seems
like all the old game manufacturers had got upset over copyright issues
and virtually all of the ROM sites had been shut down. I guess they
hadn't given up on the idea of making a huge profit on this again one
day, and now it looks like that day may be here...
How does it serve the MP3s? Over ethernet or
something else?
I'm curious on that too - another project I was wondering about as I'm
fed up hauling CDs out to the garage when I'm working there and them
getting all dusty..
> I wonder what's in those new boxes.. Think
it's just an embedded micro
> running an emulator? Fewer parts == cheaper to build.
Maybe they still have a stockpile of the original Z80 (and friends)
boards and are just dropping those straight in... :-)
cheers
Jules