5 Dec
2003
5 Dec
'03
5:40 a.m.
And thusly Jason McBrien spake:
My brother-in-law's MAME cabinet features a 27" screen, dual
multicontrollers, coin box, car stereo with decent speakers and subwoofer,
plays MP3's and movies, SERVES MP3's and movies to the rest of the house
(controlled by his iPaq over WiFi :) and plays all the classics, and cost
less than $1000. Of couse, building it all and writing the custom software
took a while, but it's a sweet machine.
Sounds like a nice spring project!! Is there any good places on the web
that sell/have plans for arcade cabinets?
How does it serve the MP3s? Over ethernet or something else? Is the 27"
screen a normal TV put on its side?
I wonder what's in those new boxes.. Think
it's just an embedded micro
running an emulator? Fewer parts == cheaper to build.
It will probably be hard to find the board!
Cheers,
Bryan